Turbulent Times

This is a compelling discussion of transformations within British Jewry in the recent times. The first study of contemporary British Jewry since the 1970s, "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. Addressing key questions on the transitions in the history of Anglo-Jewish community and leadership, and tackling the concept of the new anti-Semitism, this important and timely study addresses the question: how has UK Jewry adapted from a shift from monoculturalism to multiculturalism?

ISBN 1847144764   Pages 248 ISBN13 9781847144768 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 376 Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Published in London Imprint Continuum Collections, an imprint of Continuum International Publishing Ltd   Height (mm) 216 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 138 Publication date 11 Jul 2010   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 305.6960941   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		Acknowledgements
		Introduction		1
1		Jewish Community and Jewish Leadership in the UK		15
2		Research and the áReflexive Turn' in Anglo Jewry		38
3		The Continuity Consensus		56
4		From Jewish continuity to Jewish Continuity		71
5		The Renewal Agenda		94
6		From Renewal to Renaissance		117
7		New Antisemitism, New Insecurity		136
		Conclusion		163
		Notes		177
		Bibliography		207
		Glossary		225
		Index of Names and Institutions		229

'Turbulent Times is probing and revelatory, offering exactly the kind of self-reflection any minority community needs in order to understand itself and consider its future. Turbulent Times is an important contribution to a much-needed debate.'--,

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