Turbulent Times

Ben Gidley is Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Keith Kahn-Harris is Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

"There is a paradox at the centre of Jewish life in modern Britain. On the one hand Jews are arguably the most successfully integrated ethnic minority in Britain today. On the other, they feel marginalized and - still - unwelcome. Drs. Kahn-Harris and Gidley offer us the first scholarly dissection of this paradox. Their conclusions - based on the exhaustive examination of written and oral sources - will surprise many. But these conclusions could also offer the blueprint for a renewed engagement between Britain's Jews and the British state." - Geoffrey Alderman, Michael Gross Professor of Politics & Contemporary History, University of Buckingham, UK

• 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.