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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459205703321
• Autore: Kahn-Harris Keith <1971->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-4725-4877-9; 1-4411-0155-1; 1-282-82164-4; 9786612821646; 1-4411-1040-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/4041
• Soggetti: 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; Electronic books.; Great Britain Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.