Name: Sephardim of Sydney: Coping with Political Processes and Social Pressures
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Author: Gale, Naomi
ISBN: 9781845190354

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Sephardim of Sydney: Coping with Political Processes and Social Pressures

Type

Physical Book

Author

Naomi Gale

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

292

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 16.1 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN

1845190351

ISBN13

9781845190354

Synopsis "Sephardim of Sydney: Coping with Political Processes and Social Pressures"

The Sydney Jewish community is dynamic and vibrant, with many communal, social and religious institutions. This book investigates the Sephardic community of Sydney -- their history, their experiences as new immigrants in a host society after arriving from traditional Moslem cultures, as well as the changes they have undergone since they arrived in Australia. The Sephardic community comprises about 3,000 of the 40,000 Jews in Sydney, whose majority reside in the eastern suburbs, in Sydney's multicultural inner-city 'ethnic belt'. Although the Sephardim share some cultural features with the Jewish majority, there are substantial differences: they emphasise their cultural heterogeneity. Their experiences are viewed through the prism of their relationship to both the Ashkenazim and the larger Anglo-Australian society. Their inability to acculturate and assimilate into the Ashkenazi and Australian groups contributes profoundly to their poor self-image and to ethnic marginalisation. A negative ethnic identity and self-rejection, enhanced by rejection from the Ashkenazim and Australians, has a major impact on their everyday life and their perception of their social standing, especially on the younger Sephardic generation. This issue has been particularly relevant since 1988, when the Australian government moved to restrict Asian immigration. This became a media issue, with the Ashkenazim taking the side of white Australians and seeing themselves as superior to the Afro-Asian Jewish Sephardim, who are viewed as 'Asians' by both the Ashkenazim and the white majority. The result is a sense of 'double rejection', which pervades this group's political and social standing.

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