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CONTENTS Yemenite Ethnicity in Israel Jewish Urban Residence In VOLUME XXVI NUMBER i JUNE 1984 CONTENTS Yemenite Ethnicity in Israel HERBERT S. LEWIS Jewish Urban Residence in the Polish Commonwealth in the Early Modern Period GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT The Emigration of Soviet GeorgianJews to Israel YOCHANAN ALTMAN and GERALD MARS A Note on the Georgianjews ofTbilisi SHIRLEY KOLACK Jews in British Society (Review Article) ISRAEL FINESTEIN Book Reviews Chronicle Editor Judith Freedman OBJECTS AND SPONSORSHIP OF THE JEWISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY The Jewish Journal ofSociology was sponsored by the Cultural Department of the World Jewish Congress from its inception in 1959 until the end of 1980. Thereafter, from the first issue of 'gBi (volume 23, no. i), thejournal has been sponsored by Maurice Freedman Research Trust Limited, which is registered as an educational charity and has as its main purposes the encouragement of research in the sociology of thejews and the publication ofTheJewishJournal of Sociology. The objects of thejournal remain as stated in the Editorial of the first issue in 1959: 'This Journal has been brought into being in order to provide an international vehicle for serious writing on Jewish social affairs Academically we address ourselves not only to sociologists, but to social scientists in general, to historians, to philosophers, and to students of comparative religion. We should like to stress both that the Journal is editorially independent and that the opinions expressed by authors are their own responsibility.' The founding Editor of the ff5 was Morris Ginsberg, and the founding Managing Editor was Maurice Freedman. Morris Ginsberg, who had been Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, died in 1970. Maurice Freedman, who had been Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and later at the University of Oxford, succeeded to the title of Editor in rgp, when Dr Judith Freedman (who had been Assistant Editor since 1963) became Managing Editor. Maurice Freedman died in ig; since then thejournal has been edited by DrJudith Freedman. William Heinemann Ltd have acted throughout as publishers on behalf of the sponsors. Applications for subscriptions and enquiries regarding back numbers should be addressed to: THE JEWISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 187 GLOUCE5TER PLACE LONDON NWI 6Bu ENGLAND TELEPHONE: 01 262 8939 / THE JEWISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY Volume XXVI Numberi June 1984 CONTENTS Yemenite Ethnicity in Israel HERBERT S. LEWIS 5 Jewish Urban Residence in the Polish Commonwealth in the Early Modern Period GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT 25 The Emigration of Soviet Georgian Jews to Israel YOCHANAN ALTMAN AND GERALD MARS 35 A Note on the Georgianjews ofTbilisi SHIRLEY KOLACK 47 Jews in British Society (Review Article) ISRAEL FINESTEIN 53 Book Reviews Chronicle 75 Books Received 8 Notes on Contributors 87 PUBLISHED TWICE YEARLY, INJUNE AND DEcEMBER on behalf of Maurice Freedman Research Trust Ltd by William Heinemann Ltd (Published by the WorldJewish Congress 1959-80) ANNUAL suBscRIPTIoN £8.00 (U.S. $18.00) POST FREE SINGLE COPIES £4.50 (U.S. $10.00) Applications for subscriptions should be sent to TheJewishJournal of Sociology, 187 Gloucester Place, London NW, 6BU, England EDITOR Judith Freedman ADVISORY BOARD R. Bachi (Israel) Lloyd P. Gartner (Israel) Howard Brotz (Canada) Nathan Glazer (U.S.A.) Percy S. Cohen (Britain) Jacques Gutwirth (France) Moshe Davis (Israel) Elie Kedourie (Britain) S. N. Eisenstadt (Israel) S.J. Prais (Britain) © MAURICE FREEDMAN RESEARCH TRUST LTD 1984 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY W. S. HANEY & SON LTD, LEEDS BOOKS REVIEWED Author Title Reviewer Page Geoffrey Alderman The Jewish Community in British Israel Finestein 53 Politics Janet Aviad Return to Judaism. Religious Renewal Stephen Sharot 61 in Israel Joseph Buckman Immigrants and the Class Struggle. Lloyd P. Gartner 63 The Jewish Immigrant in Leeds, 1880-1914 Reuven P. Bulka DimensionsofOrthodoxJudaisra LouisJacobs 65 DanCaspi, Abraham The Roots ofBegin's Success David Capitanchik 66 Uiskin, and Lmmanuel The 1981 Israeli Elections Gutmann, eds Harold Pollins EconomicHistoryoftheJewsin Israel Finestein 53 England Dominique Schnapper Jewish identities in France. An Stephen Sharot 68 Analysis of Contemporary French Jew.y Stephen Sharot Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic. Jacques Gutwirth 70 A SociologicalA nalysis ofJewish Religious Movements 3 NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS Papers submitted to The Jewish Journal of Sociology should be addressed to the Editor at 187 Gloucester Place, London NW.r 6BU, England. The papers must be original. They should not have been published previously, or be committed to publication elsewhere, in any language. When a paper has been accepted for publication, the author may not publish it elsewhere in any language, without the written consent of the Editor oftheJ.S.S. MSS (please send at least two copies) should be typewritten on one side only and double-spaced with ample margins. Pages (including those containing illustrations, diagrams, or tables) should be num- bered consecutively. All quotations should be within single inverted commas; quotation marks within quotations should be double inverted commas. Notes should follow the style of thisJournal and should be given at the end of the article in numerical sequence according to the order of their citation in the text. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAIlS Books Give author, title, place of publication, year, and page reference. Underline all titles of books. Articles Place titles of articles within single inverted commas. Underline the title of the book orjournal in which the article appears. In the case ofajournal, cite numbers ofvolume and part, and year of publication. PROOFS. Authors making major revisions in proof will be required to bear the cot. Unless proofs are returned to the Managing Editor promptly, authors' corrections cannot be incorporated. OFFPRINTS. Each contributor receives thirty free ofiprints of his article. If there are two or more authors, the thirty offprints are shared between them. YEMENITE ETHNICITY IN ISRAEL Herbert S. Lewis HE expressions kibuts galuyol ('ingathering of the exiles') and micuggaluyot ('fusion of the exiles') have long been key concepts Tand watchwords of Israeli society and ideology. Adopted in the early days of the state, they were to guide policies of immigration, immigrant 'absorption', and integration. But in the dialectic of political and social processes, micug galujot and the policies it fostered have now come under heavy attack from a new generation of writers, as well as from many of those one-time immigrants who were to have been assimilated. In the past decade it has become commonplace to claim that the Jewish immigrants who came from Asian and African countries (sometimes called 'Oriental Jews' or, just as inaccurately, 'Sephardim') have been robbed of their culture, their traditions, their pride, and their rightful place in Israeli society by the Ashkenazi elite. For example, Henry Toledano says that mizug galuyoi 'apparently means simply the Ashkenizarion of the Sephardim'.1 This is milder than Michael Seltzer who prefers the term 'Aryanization' to refer to the same phenomenon.2 Nissim Rejwan claiths that the result of micug galujot has been 'deculturation, marginalization, educational and cultural deprivation' of the groups.3 It is not hard to find more recent formulations of the same idea, such as those in the writings of Sammy Smooha, Sherry Rosen, and Arnold Lewis.' It is quite true that most members of the Ashkenazi establishment were not - and probably still are not - appreciative of or sensitive to the traditions, culture, and social relations of the Asian and African Jews. It is also true that these ways, these traditions, have undergone massive change within Israel. In this paper, however, I attempt to present a picture of one particular ethnic group among the many in Israel's population, and to show how and in what ways its members have maintained for a century a meaningful and distinctive complex set of social relations, activities, and institutions, as well as artistic creativity. By drawing attention to these phenomena I hope to give a more realistic, or more balanced, picture of the range of ethnic variations and options in Israel. The case of the Yemenites is by no HERBERT S. LEWIS means 'typical'; no single case could be, and the Yemenites are in many respects an exceptional group, with an unusual history. But this study, which is based on participant observation, points to some of the complexities of ethnic change and persistence in Israel and suggests a modified perspective in place of the current accepted wisdom on the subject.5 The ideological background After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the country's Jewish population doubled - from 650,000 to more than 1,340,000 - by the end of 195 It had tripled by a decade later. The politicians and administrators, planners and workers in housing, education, politics, industry, etc., as well as the armed forces, had to deal with both the physical needs and the social integration of immigrants from more than 50 countries. There was no ambiguity about their attitude and policies. As far as thejewish portion of Israel's population was concerned, there had to be integration and unity, politically, culturally, and socially. Seeing the Jewish people as one people, the Knesset passed 'The Law of Return', which guaranteed the right of all Jews to settle in Israel as full citizens. The government and the various institutional arms of the state aimed in 1948 to settle, educate, and integrate the newcomers without distinction - at least in theory. They expected the immigrants to discard many of the old ways, their 'galut (Diaspora) mentality' - as the earlier settlers thought they themselves had done. They were building a new Israeli society, a new state with a new culture. Ben- Gurion is said to have exclaimed, 'We have no time for Israel to be a melting pot. It is a pressure cooker'. The idea was clear: one Jewish nation would be formed out of the mass of humanity of differing geographical origins that had suddenly arrived in the reborn Land of Israel.
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