Difference between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Judaism
Date Submitted: 12/11/2001 07:21:45
Category: / History / Middle East History
Length: 8 pages (2249 words)
Category: / History / Middle East History
Length: 8 pages (2249 words)
For the most part, modern Jewish history deals with the political,
social and economic advancements achieved by the Ashkenazi communities
in Europe, America, and later -- Palestine. Because of it's relatively
small size and involvement in the affairs of 'civilized' countries of
Europe and America, the Sephardi branch of Judaism is rerely dealt with in
the context of modern Jewish history. Their developement is however, though
not as influential upon the flow of the 'mainstream' …
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…their developement and
the final result of it. The history itself was shaped by the environment in
which the exiled Jews found themselves, and the attitude of the people who
surrounded them. This attitude was in turn based around their religious
doctrine.
(1) Bernard Lewis, 'The Jews of Islam'
(2) Harvey Goldberg, 'Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries', introductoin
p15
(3) Norman Stillman, 'Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries'
Essay 1, 'Middle-Eastern and North African Jewries'
p67
1996, Lev Epshteyn, SUNY Binghamton.
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