The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Why the UK Jewish Community Supported Operation Pillar of Defence
Jewish Quarterly
Publication Date: Winter 2012
Theme: Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
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!
In times of crisis, UK Jews return to public support for Israel
New Statesman
The diversity of views that has developed has been temporarily obscured by Operation Pillar of Defence
Publication Date: November 23, 2012
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Review of ‘The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg: Chapter One’
Souciant
Review by Danielle Sottosanti
Publication Date: October 24, 2012
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
Iranian and Israeli activists should form a new alliance for peace (Co-authored with Shirin Barghi and Joel Schalit)
The Guardian
As conflict between Israel and Iran looms, interfaith and community activists in the UK could build an anti-war coalition
Publication Date: October 17, 2012
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Chapter One
The succesfully crowdfunded first chapter of the book 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Tales of Big Fish in Small Ponds', published by Unbound.
Publication Date: 2012
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
What is a secular Jew?
New Humanist
It was Jews who were the first to test-drive secularism, says Keith Kahn-Harris
Publication Date: September 13, 2012
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
The pleasure and pain of crowd funding
The Literary Platform
Reflections on the experience of watching the crowdfunding campaign for 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg' stall
Publication Date: August 25, 2012
Theme: Personal/Memoire, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
Interview: »Metal ist Ironie«
Jüdischen Allgemeinen
Keith Kahn-Harris über seinen Blog und warum er auch Neonazi-Musiker gern hört
Publication Date: August 21, 2012
Theme: Jews and Metal
Category: Interviews
How do you sum up Judaism on one leg?
Jewish Chronicle
When you are asked to write a guide to Judaism, choosing what to include or omit can be tough
Publication Date: August 21, 2012
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Book Review: The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist by Tony Lerman
Times Literary Supplement
Publication Date: August 10, 2012
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
Books review: Rabbis behaving badly
New Humanist
Liberals have a history of sparking controversy within British Judaism. Keith Kahn-Harris surveys new books by two trouble-making leaders.
[Review of: This is Not the Way: Jews, Judaism and Israel by David Goldberg (Faber) and Trouble-Making Judaism by Elli Tikvah Sarah (David Paul Books)]
Publication Date: June 15, 2012
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
Slayer and me
Souciant
Publication Date: June 14, 2012
Theme: Best Of, Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Book Review: Jerusalem by Guy Delisle
Jewish Chronicle
Publication Date: June 1, 2012
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Book reviews
Shhh! Don’t mention Israel
New Statesman
British Jews are beginning what will be a long and painful process – to recognise the existence of pluralism on Israel, says Keith Kahn-Harris.
Publication Date: May 23, 2012
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
A weak ‘revolution’ at the Board of Deputies of British Jews
The Guardian
Having more young people on the board will help, but its a long way from being a fully democratic voice of Anglo-Jewry
Publication Date: April 27, 2012
Theme: Community, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Luxembourg: posh restaurants and free clubbing in the party city
The Guardian
Luxembourg City may not be an obvious weekend break destination, but with free entry to clubs and an all-night party bus, it's letting its hair down
Publication Date: April 6, 2012
Theme: Miscellaneous, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
Contemporary Anglo-Jewish and Community Leadership: Coping with Multiculturalism (co-authored with Ben Gidley)
British Journal of Sociology 63(1), 168-187
In this article, drawing on qualitative interviews and documentary analysis, we argue that the Jewish community in Britain has undergone a fundamental shift since 1990 from a ‘strategy of security’, a strategy of communal leadership based on emphasizing the secure British citizenship and belonging of the UK's Jews, to a ‘strategy of insecurity’, where the communal leadership instead stresses an excess of security among Anglo‐Jewry. We demonstrate this based on two case studies: of the Jewish renewal movement in the 1990s and the ‘new antisemitism’ phenomenon of the 2000s. We conclude that this shift is tied to the shift from a monocultural Britain to an officially multicultural one, and that therefore there are lessons that can be taken from it for the study of British and other multiculturalisms.
Publication Date: March 8, 2012
Theme: Community, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journal articles
The Neasden Protocol
Despatches from the Invisible Revolution, (Edited by Keith Kahn-Harris and Dougald Hine, Pedia Press, 2012)
Publication Date: February 23, 2012
Theme: Community, Miscellaneous, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays