Turbulent Times

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?

Introduction 1. Jewish Community, Jewish Leadership 2. Insecurity and the Problem of Jewish Continuity 3. Conceptualizing Jewish Continuity 4. Practising Jewish Continuity 5. Re-imagining Anti-Semitism 6. Combating the New Anti-Semitism  Conclusion: Towards a Dialogic Jewish Community  Bibliography  Index