Turbulent times
Subtitle: the British Jewish community today
By: Ben Gidley and Keith Kahn-Harris.
Contributors: Kahn-Harris, Keith, 1971-
Publisher: Continuum Logo
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781847063168; 9781847144768
Subjects: Jews -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century; Jews -- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st century; Jews -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs; Judaism -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century; Great Britain -- Ethnic relations
Description: "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. 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. 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? "--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Table of contents: title: Jewish community and Jewish leadership in the UK; title: Research and the "reflexive turn" in Anglo Jewry; title: The continuity consensus; title: From Jewish continuity to Jewish continuity; title: The renewal agenda; title: From renewal to renaissance; title: New antisemitism, new insecurity.