Table of Contents

Symposium: Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews
Sergio Della Pergola (Hebrew University): "Sephardic and Oriental" Jews in Israel and Western Countries
Michel Abitbol (Hebrew University): Jews of Muslim Lands in the Modern Period
Yaron Tsur (Tel Aviv University): The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen
Doli Benhabib (Open University of Israel): From Arab Diaspora to Eretz Israel
Zvi Zohar (Bar-Ilan University): The Sephardic Halakhic Tradition in the 20th Century
Nissim Leon (Bar-Ilan University): "Zikui Harabim"
Kimmy Caplan (Bar-llan University): Studying Haredi Mizrahim in Israel
Henriette Dahan Kalev (Ben-Gurion University): Breaking Their Silence
André Levy (Ben-Gurion University): Conditional Homelands and Diasporas
Harvey E. Goldberg and Chen Bram (Hebrew University) Review Essays: Sephardic/Mizrahi/Arab Jews
Dan Michman (Bar-Ilan University): The Shaping of Israeli Historiography of the Holocaust
Gerald Cromer (Bar-Ilan University): The Rabin Assassination
Book Reviews

About the Author

The Studies in Contemporary Jewry series is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Eli Lederhendler, Peter Y. Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, who teach Jewish history, society, and politics at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Peter Y. Medding, the editor of Volume XXII, is Dr. Israel Goldstein Professor Emeritus of Zionism and the State of Israel of the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. He is author of Jewish Identity in Conversionary and Mixed Marriages and The Founding of Israeli Democracy 1948-1967, among other titles.