Remaking Israeli Judaism: The Challenge of Shas

by Batia Siebzehner and David Lehmann

This is the first comprehensive account of Shas, which is the most significant religious and cultural movement to have emerged in Israel since the rise of Likud in 1977. Shas represents an explosive mixture of the religious and ethnic tensions that continue to simmer beneath the surface of Israeli Jewish society and politics. This Sephardi religious revival movement is also giving birth to the first truly Israeli form of Orthodox Judaism, distinct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195306937
• ISBN13: 9780195306934
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"