Students protest anti-Sephardic textbook
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- A 1950s book that called Sephardic Jews "backward" and is still being used at the Hebrew University sparked p, The book, Prof. Carl Frankenstein's "Hahitzon" ("The Outsider"), served as an intellectual basis for anti-Sephardi discriminatio
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Still used in the university's department of education as a text, the book also claims that "eastern Jews are lacking in experience of civilization."
Members of both the Likud-affiliated Gilad Aviv movement and the left-wing Ofek joined forces under the banner of the Righteous Society group to protest the continued use of the book.
Some lecturers have defended the book, saying it must be viewed in the context in which it was written.
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