The maintenance and transmission of ethnic identity
Subtitle: a study of four ethnic groups of religious Jews in Israel
By: Linda Begley Soroff.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Orthodox Judaism -- Israel.; Ashkenazim -- Religious life -- Israel.; Sephardim -- Religious life -- Israel.; Jews, Ethiopian -- Religious life -- Israel.; Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
Description: This work focuses on how four religiously observant ethnic groups - namely, the Ashkenazim, Sephardim, veteran Ethiopians, and recently arrived Ethiopians - express their identity in the new environment, and maintain their boundaries from other jewish groups. the principal concern of this study is the relationship between religion and ethnicity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-248).