[Peace-discuss] Israel's Sephardic-Ashkenazi Rift: The Shas Paradox

[David Green]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-shasha/israels-sephardic-ashkena_b_627445.html


It should be remembered that one of the most important Israeli cultural products 
of the early 1960s, Ephraim Kishon's "Sallah Shabbati" -- a deeply misguided and 
racist portrayal of bumbling Sephardi immigrants cast in the most offensive 
terms possible -- was produced in this racially charged climate. Its assertions 
of Sephardi barbarity and incompetence permeated all levels of Israeli society.


      
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