The communal gadfly [[electronic resource] ] : an anthology / / Geoffrey Alderman

• Autore: Alderman Geoffrey
• Pubblicazione: Brighton, Mass., : Academic Studies Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/4041
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 20th century; 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 - Great Britain - History - 21st century
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Ethnic relations
• Note generali: "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.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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."
• Altri titoli varianti: Communal gadfly : Jews, British Jews and the Jewish state : asking the subversive questions, an anthology
• Titolo autorizzato: The communal gadfly
• ISBN: 1-61811-056-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819394803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II