The Challenge of Mediocre Metal
Souciant
Publication Date: February 12, 2015
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
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!
Jewish Quarterly Spring 2015
Publication Date: March 2015
Theme: Jewish Quarterly, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Edited issues and publications
Sound and Fury: A civil correspondence about online rage
New Statesman / Jewish Quarterly
Keith Kahn-Harris, editor of the Jewish Quarterly, and Helen Lewis, deputy editor of the New Statesman, discuss the anger that permeates the online world and how, as editors, they respond to it.
Publication Date: January 12, 2015
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
My Top Ten Musical Anxieties of 2014
Souciant
Publication Date: December 16, 2014
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Music, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Jewish Quarterly Autumn/Winter 2014
Publication Date: November 2014
Theme: Jewish Quarterly, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Edited issues and publications
How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand, book review
The Independent
Why secular Jewish identity is a contemporary delusion
Publication Date: October 16, 2014
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
Unchosen by Julie Burchill, book review: Tribute to Jews mixes humour, passion and bigotry
The Independent
It’s an occasionally touching, sometimes bigoted and sporadically hilarious love letter to a particular kind of Jew and a particular kind of Jewishness
Publication Date: October 2, 2014
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
Do British Jews Have Better Approach to Strife Over Israel?
The Forward
Publication Date: September 16, 2014
Theme: Community, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
How high can grass roots grow?
Jewish Chronicle
Publication Date: September 11, 2014
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Community, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Stop the Pretense: There’s No Consensus Among Diaspora Jews on Israel
Haaretz
Those attacking the mainstream institutions of UK Jewry for its stance during the Gaza conflict have come not just from the Israel-critical left - but also a newly combative and vocal pro-Israel bloc.
Publication Date: September 2, 2014
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Jewish Quarterly Summer 2014
Publication Date: August 2014
Theme: Jewish Quarterly, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Edited issues and publications
What British Jews really think about the Gaza conflict
The Guardian
The British Jewish community is often portrayed as being united on Israel – but opinion is far more complex and wide-ranging than that
Publication Date: July 23, 2014
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Crossing Over
Jewish Quarterly
A walk around Jewish North London with 'deep topographer' Nick Papadimitriou
Publication Date: Summer 2014
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Jewish Journal of Sociology 56(1-2) 2014
Edited by and with an introduction by Keith Kahn-Harris
Publication Date: 2014
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Edited issues and publications
Jewish Quarterly Spring 2014
Publication Date: April 2014
Theme: Jewish Quarterly, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Edited issues and publications
The State of Jewish food today
Jewish Quarterly
A conversation over lunch with Eran Tibi, Michael Leventhal, Judy Jackson, Lara Smallman, Amy Beilin and Lindsey Bennett.
Publication Date: Spring 2014
Theme: Culture, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Why All the Incivility When It Comes to Talking about Israel?
Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
A sociologist dissects the contentious relationship among Diaspora Jews when discussing Israeli politics.
Publication Date: April 14, 2014
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Civil Reactions
Jewish Quarterly
Three responses to Keith Kahn-Harris’s new book Uncivil War: The Israel Conflict in the Jewish Community, from David Hirsh, Jonathan Cummings and Stephen Frosh. [With introduction by me]
Publication Date: April 1, 2014
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays