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Turbulent times : the British Jewish community today / Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kahn-Harris, Keith, 1971- author.
Contributor:
Gidley, Ben, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jews--Great Britain--History--21st century.
Jews.
Jews--Great Britain--Politics and government--21st century.
Jews--Great Britain--Social life and customs.
Judaism--Great Britain--History--21st century.
Judaism.
Great Britain--Ethnic relations.
Great Britain.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (246 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
"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.
Contents:
Jewish community and Jewish leadership in the UK
Research and the "reflexive turn" in Anglo Jewry
The continuity consensus
From Jewish continuity to Jewish continuity
The renewal agenda
From renewal to renaissance
New antisemitism, new insecurity.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-224) and index.
ISBN:
9786612821646
9781472548771
1472548779
9781441101556
1441101551
9781282821644
1282821644
9781441110404
1441110402
OCLC:
670412082

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