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From Openness to Insularity: Motives for the Changes in the Relations of the Traditional Sephardic Elite to Modern Values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2003

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This article describes a little noticed process among the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, in which an initially open response to modernity was replaced among some religious leaders by marked opposition to it. The result is a more nuanced view of the cultural/spiritual lives of these important communities.

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Research Article
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© 2002 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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