Turbulent Times

The first book-length study of contemporary British Jewry <em>Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today</em> examines the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990. <br/><br/>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 <em>strategy of insecurity</em> 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. <br/><br/>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?