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Publication Date: September 1981
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Steve Zipperstein; Eliezer D. Jaffe
Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions
Keywords: Socioeconomic status; Jewish Communal Relations; Social Policy; Social Class
Type: Report
Coverage: Israel
Abstract:
The majority of Sephardim remain at the lower rungs of the socioeconomic hierarchy in Israel. The authors analyze the Sephardi-Ashkenazi gap in terms of sociopolitical
explanations given by Israeli scholars over the years. The dominant model offered is that this problem can only be solved through the modernization of the Sephardim. The authors demonstrate that this model has been used for several decades as the rationale and formula for social policies and relationships between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi groups. The authors critique this problematic notion of "modernization" as currently applied and offer alternative modes of analysis in working to solve the socioeconomic gap.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 58:1.