Turbulent Times

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Turbulent Times

The British Jewish Community Today

Judaism Sociology and anthropology

Authors: Keith Kahn-Harris, Ben Gidley

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Language: English

Published by: Continuum

Published on: 22nd July 2010

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 248 pages

ISBN: 9781441101556


Book Overview

The first book-length study of contemporary British Jewry, Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today examines the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990.

Authors' Perspective

Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley contend that there has been a shift within Jewish communal discourse from a strategy of security, which emphasized Anglo-Jewry's secure British belonging and citizenship, to a strategy of insecurity, which emphasizes the dangers and threats Jews face individually and communally. This shift is part of a process of renewal in the community that has led to something of a ''Jewish renaissance'' in Britain.

Key Questions Addressed

Addressing key questions on the transitions in the history of Anglo-Jewish community and leadership, and tackling the concept of the ''new antisemitism'', this important and timely study addresses the question: how has UK Jewry adapted from a shift from monoculturalism to multiculturalism?

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