| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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 someth |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century.
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Jews -- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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Jews -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Judaism -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century.
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Great Britain -- Ethnic relations.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gidley, Ben.
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| ISBN |
1282821644 |
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1441110402 (electronic bk.) |
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9781282821644 |
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9781441110404 (electronic bk.) |
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