The communal gadfly : an anthology / Geoffrey Alderman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alderman, Geoffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Great Britain--Social life and customs--21st century.

Jews--Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.

Jews--Great Britain--Politics and government--21st century.

Judaism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Judaism.

Judaism--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Great Britain--Ethnic relations.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Communal gadfly : Jews, British Jews and the Jewish state : asking the subversive questions, an anthology

Place of Publication:

Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Founded in 1841, the London-based Jewish Chronicle is the world's oldest continuously circulating Jewish newspaper. Since 2002 its prestigious flagship "Comment" column has been written by Oxford-educated Dr. Geoffrey Alderman, the leading authority on the Jews of modern Britain, a prolific and controversial scholar whose views have attracted warm support and sweeping condemnation in equal measure. This anthology brings together over a hundred of his Jewish Chronicle op-eds on subjects as diverse as Jewish Orthodoxy, Ultra-Orthodoxy, Non-Orthodoxy, Islamic Judeophobia, Islamophobia and Jewish approaches to politics and sex. "I have tried to be funny," Alderman declares, "when occasion has seemed to me to warrant the deployment of a certain humour, which can be a valuable didactic tool and a powerful medium of communication. I have on occasion employed sarcasm and irony. But I have always tried to be scrupulously accurate as to facts, and to locate my comment within that groundwork. Above all, true to my vocation as a rebel who has refused to toe the communal line, I have always presented a point of view that is unashamedly mine."

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

I. THE BOARD OF DEPUTIES OF BRITISH JEWS and THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

II. BRITISH JEWS and BRITISH POLITICS

III. KENNETH ROBERT LIVINGSTONE

IV. ORTHODOXY and NON-ORTHODOXY

V. ORTHODOXY and ULTRA-ORTHODOXY

VI. JONATHAN HENRY SACKS

VII. ISRAEL AND ITS ENEMIES

VIII. THE PROBLEM WITH ISLAM

IX. ISLAMIC JUDEOPHOBIA

X. WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...

XI. EXPOSING MYTHS

XII. NAZISM

XIII. SEX

XIV. ISLAMOPHOBIA

Notes:

"In this volume I present an anthology chosen, by me, from the weekly opinion column that I have been writing since March 2002 for the London-based Jewish Chronicle"--Pref.

ISBN:

1-61811-056-X

OCLC:

769188604