Benjamin Brown

Nov 16, 2017

The Haredim

A Guide to Their Beliefs and Sectors

Am-Oved 2017

In The Haredim: A Guide to their Beliefs and Sectors (Am-Oved and the IDI, 2017, in Hebrew), Benjamin Brown, a professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, offers a mapping of the various sects that compose Jewish Israeli Ultra-Orthodoxy. He aims to provide his readers with a "respectful yet critical approach" to a rather diverse community, which in many senses has become an Israeli "Other."


Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism (SUNY Press, 2017). You can read more of Yadgar's work here.

Listen on the New Books Network:

Listen to more episodes on:

Your Host

Yaacov Yadgar

Learn More

Also Hosted By Yaacov Yadgar