Another Way, Another Time

Now a freelance writer and editor, Meir Persoff edited the London Jewish Chronicle’s news, features, arts, Judaism, letters and obituaries sections during a distinguished 40-year career on the paper. He has written extensively on Jewish topics – notably Jewish art and Judaica – and served on the Jewish Book Council and as president of the Israel-Judaica Philatelic Society. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he holds a London University MA (with distinction) in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, having specialised in modern Jewish history and the history of anti-Semitism, and earned his PhD from Middlesex University, London, for his research into the British Chief Rabbinate’s relationship with the non-Orthodox movements. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Middlesex Commission Area in 2001.

‘'[Persoff] has been able to deploy his material against the background of an extensive knowledge of the inner world of British Jewry, gathered over a lifetime reporting and commenting upon it without fear and without favour. Another Way, Another Time will certainly not be the last word on Jonathan Sacks. But all who write on this subject hereafter will need to measure their efforts against the yardstick Dr Persoff has fashioned, and which he now sets before us.’'

• Foreword, by Geoffrey Alderman xi, Preface xv, 1. With Open Arms 1, 2. Beyond the Limits 33, 3. Leading by Example 45, 4. The Culture of Contempt 67, 5. The Search for Survival 91, 6. The Stanmore Accords 125, Interlude. From First to Second 145, 7. The Indignity of Difference 167, 8. The Crucible of Judaism 187, 9. The Dynamic of Renewal 221, 10. Rites and Wrongs 237, 11. The Stanmore Discords 257, 12. The Mirage of Unity 281, 13. The Pull of Pluralism 293, Notes 317, Bibliography 359