By Keith Kahn-Harris,Ben Gidley
Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley contend that there was a shift inside Jewish communal discourse from a method of defense, which emphasised Anglo-Jewry's safe British belonging and citizenship, to a strategy of insecurity, which emphasizes the hazards and threats Jews face separately and communally. This shift is a part of a means of renewal in the neighborhood that has ended in whatever of a 'Jewish renaissance' in Britain.
Addressing key questions about the transitions within the historical past of Anglo-Jewish neighborhood and management, and tackling the concept that of the 'new antisemitism', this crucial and well timed examine addresses the query: how has united kingdom Jewry tailored from a shift from monoculturalism to multiculturalism?
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