Review of ‘The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English’ by Hana Videen
New Humanist
Publication Date: Winter 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Book reviews
Writings
Here you can find a record of almost all my publications – from scholarly journal articles to newspaper articles – listed with the most recent first. In most cases there is either a downloadable pdf or a link to the publication itself. You can search by publication type (academic, non-academic, book reviews etc), by theme and by keyword. Enjoy!
Kilts, mohawks and plumbing: smashing Jewish stereotypes – in pictures
The Guardian
Fed up with media cliches around a ‘typical’ Jewish person, Keith Kahn-Harris and Rob Stothard set out to showcase the community’s diversity – and hear their stories
Publication Date: May 19, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Journalism and essays
Trapped In The Overground: The Sickness Of The Music Industrialist
The Quietus
Keith Kahn-Harris argues that Ian Winwood’s startling memoire Bodies: Life and Death in Music inadvertently makes the case for the superiority of underground music scenes
Publication Date: May 7, 2022
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Music
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
On (not) celebrating Jewish diversity
JewThink
Publication Date: April 11, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Journalism and essays
The right image: How should Jews be portrayed in the media?
Religion Media Centre
Publication Date: April 8, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Interviews
Is this what a Jew looks like?
Jewish Chronicle
Can Shannon, a Liberal Jew from York, replace the stereotypical image most British people have of Jews - the black-hatted, bearded Strictly Orthodox men? A new book aims to try.
Publication Date: April 7, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Interviews
Beyond black hats and stereotypes: Jews and the visual image
Sanford St Martin Trust (blog)
Publication Date: April 7, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Journalism and essays
What we don’t know about IHRA: Practices of subversion and neglect
conflict and communication online
The debate about the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism (IHRA) has generally focused on the meaning of the definition itself and the consequences of its adoption or non-adoption by institutions. Yet we know very little of how IHRA is applied in practice by institutions that adopt it. This article discusses the case of Professor David Miller of Bristol University, where the adoption of IHRA by the university did not prevent his absolution (subsequently overturned by the university) from accusations of antisemitism by one legal opinion that made reference to IHRA itself. This incident demonstrates the possibility that institutions might ‘subvert’ or simply neglect IHRA when dealing with accusations of antisemitism. This possibility is rarely mentioned by activist proponents and opponents of IHRA. There is therefore an urgent need for empirical research into the ways IHRA is understood and applied by institutions that have adopted it.
Publication Date: April 1, 2022
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journal articles
Photographs celebrate diversity of Britain’s Jewish population
Ham and High
Publication Date: April 1, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Interviews
From lockdown to Lebedev, Boris Johnson’s party addiction tells us everything
New Statesman
It's about privilege and power, not just pleasure.
Publication Date: March 15, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Notting Hill Editions Author Profile: Keith Kahn-Harris
Exact Editions Blog
Publication Date: March 15, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Interviews
Putin Comes Clean: From Denial to Invasion
The Battleground
Invasion is an act of commitment. To send troops in, to kill, to seek to dominate, is to rule out alternative courses of action, perhaps forever.
Publication Date: March 7, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
They Were Not Evil: The Loveable Raconteurs Of NWOBHM
The Quietus
Keith Kahn-Harris reviews Michael Hann’s Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and revisits his long-lost NWOBHM past
Publication Date: February 19, 2022
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
The left needs to learn from Boris Johnson’s sense of fun
New Statesman
From Corbynite purity to Starmerite self-flagellation, the left is based on a denial of its own humanity – of fun.
Publication Date: February 15, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
The pleasure in not understanding a language can be awesome
Psyche
Publication Date: January 19, 2022
Theme: Language
Category: Journalism and essays
Review of ‘The Women of Rothschild’ by Natalie Livingstone
Prospect Jan-Feb 2022
Publication Date: January 1, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
New set of portraits to shine a light on British Jews in all their diversity
Jewish News
Photography initiative is response to frustration about the media's knee-jerk use of photographs of Charedim to illustrate stories about Jewish community
Publication Date: December 28, 2021
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Interviews
So who is judging YouTube?
Index on Censorship
Accused by the video behemoth of spreading misinformation, KEITH KAHN-HARRIS conducted an
experiment in an effort to understand how the social media platform polices its content
Publication Date: Winter 2021 50(4)
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Miscellaneous
Category: Journalism and essays