Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews

Sami Shalom Chetrit

2004

Defining and establishing Mizrahim as Edot haMizrah served to prevent, until the early 1980s, any attempt to create a collective Mizrahi identity as an alternative to the general Israeli identity. This can easily be accounted for by using the “modernization” Orientalist sociology, represented by Eisenstadt and his disciples. For according to this…

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Sami Shalom Chetrit

b. 1960

Sami Shalom Chetrit is a Moroccan-born social science scholar, poet, and film producer who moved to Israel at age three. He holds a doctorate from the Hebrew University and is a professor at Queens College in New York. An influential social activist who lectures in Israel and the United States, Chetrit has published texts and essays about ethnicity, class, and culture. He also produced the film The Black Panthers Speak.

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