https://www.thejc.com/judaism/all/how-orthodoxy-swung-to-the-right-ZMi4Ux9WDS1VRQmnyYSlK
As Soloveitchik is clear, he bases his observations on the Ashkenazi experience. In response, the head of London’s S & P Sephardi Community, Rabbi Joseph Dweck, has pointed out that the “mimetic” tradition proved more durable in Sephardi communities, though noting that they have since “overwhelmingly succumbed” to “neo-Ashkenazi” influences.
As Rav haym Soloveitchik noted in Rupture and Reconstruction, we have, with the security and wealth the Western world has provided, build an Orthodoxy based on selective memories and over-reliance on books that has only a tenuous connection to actual Orthodoxy in the old country. The Sephardim never had such a rupture. An Ashkenazi a generation ago might not have had memories of a father doing kiddush so he learned it from the book, chumros and all, while the Sephardim did have such transmission. As for Sephardim today, well the Chasidim won. The Litvaks started to copy them and then told the Sephardim that since this was "authentic" Judaism, they'd better get on board.
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