Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Education
Angaben zur Quelle:
89,2 (2023) 174-198
Keywords:
Jewish religious education Social aspects
;
Mizrahim Education
;
History
;
Orthodox Judaism Education
Abstract:
The Israeli state-religious-education system (SRES) held an unfavorable view of Mizrahi religiosity in the 1980s. Text analyses of religious-education heads’ writings indicate that they saw Mizrahi religiosity as a primitive relic of the past and as a “low-level religiosity” and regarded Mizrahi students as uncommitted and compromising. The large numbers of Mizrahi students in the SRES and the “melting pot” ideology prevalent at the time led to a systemic view of Mizrahi students as “religiously disadvantaged”—that is, children whose religion was flawed but rectifiable, with the task of rectifying it entrusted to the system.
DOI:
10.1080/15244113.2023.2215949
URL:
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