04176nam 2200709 a 450 991045769140332120200520144314.01-61811-056-X10.1515/9781618110565(CKB)2550000000063010(OCoLC)769188604(CaPaEBR)ebrary10509002(SSID)ssj0000535213(PQKBManifestationID)12183964(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535213(PQKBWorkID)10519493(PQKB)11195041(MiAaPQ)EBC3110377(DE-B1597)540930(OCoLC)870897215(DE-B1597)9781618110565(Au-PeEL)EBL3110377(CaPaEBR)ebr10509002(CaONFJC)MIL574337(EXLCZ)99255000000006301020090701d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe communal gadfly[electronic resource] an anthology /Geoffrey AldermanBrighton, Mass. Academic Studies Pressc20091 online resource (282 p.) "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.1-934843-46-6 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. ISLAMOPHOBIAFounded 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."Communal gadfly :Jews, British Jews and the Jewish state : asking the subversive questions, an anthologyJewsGreat BritainSocial life and customs20th centuryJewsGreat BritainSocial life and customs21st centuryJewsGreat BritainPolitics and government20th centuryJewsGreat BritainPolitics and government21st centuryJudaismGreat BritainHistory20th centuryJudaismGreat BritainHistory21st centuryGreat BritainEthnic relationsElectronic books.JewsSocial life and customsJewsSocial life and customsJewsPolitics and governmentJewsPolitics and governmentJudaismHistoryJudaismHistory305.892/4041Alderman Geoffrey1026221MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457691403321The communal gadfly2484652UNINA