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 discussions of identity politics, one group always seems left out argues a new book
Publication Date: February 4, 2021
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Politics
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Publication Date: December 19, 2020
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journal articles
Publication Date: December 11, 2020
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Since 2014, JPR's European Jewish Research Archive (EJRA) has consolidated social research on post-1990 European Jewish populations within one single, freely available, online resource. EJRA is designed to be a service to community leaders, policymakers and researchers, as well as a resource to help inform the European Jewish research agenda going forward.
Drawing on an innovative methodology, this report presents a detailed statistical analysis of EJRA's holdings. Through this analysis, we are able to pinpoint specific strengths and weaknesses in social research coverage of particular issues in particular countries.
Drawing on the research findings, the report goes on to raise questions regarding possible strategic priorities for European Jewish research for discussion by researchers and organisations that sponsor research. In particular, we ask how and whether research across Europe could be better coordinated and what countries and topics require further support to develop a stronger research infrastructure.
Publication Date: December 4, 2020
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Miscellaneous
Category: Reports and policy papers
Publication Date: December 4, 2020
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Language, Music
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: November 9, 2020
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Israel/Palestine, Metal Music and Culture, Music
Category: Book chapters
Publication Date: November 8, 2020
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
The EHRC’s measured tone contrasted with Starmer’s dramatic suspension of Corbyn. Neither will bring resolution
Publication Date: October 29, 2020
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: October 26, 2020
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book reviews
Keith Kahn-Harris chats with legendarily personable Napalm Death vocalist Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway about what extremity and radicalism mean in a plague year
Publication Date: October 20, 2020
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
The worst the weather is on Sukkot, the more perfect the festival is
Publication Date: October 9, 2020
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
What do you do when you are drawn to the bad guys, but the baddest guys around are just too bad?
Publication Date: October 7, 2020
Theme: Jews and Metal, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
How metal’s Christian apocalyptic sensibility can ground hope for a Jewish new year of renewal.
Publication Date: September 21, 2020
Theme: Jews and Metal, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
How Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire’s ‘Left Out’ shows how love was always a greater problem than hate in Corbyn’s Labour Party
Publication Date: September 11, 2020
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Special issue co-edited with Dominic Williams
Publication Date: September 1, 2020
Theme: Jews and Metal, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Edited issues and publications
Albert Friedlander's writings were part of a generational struggle to find a language in which to speak of the experience of the Holocaust. This struggle was, in part, a response to the ‘unspeakability’ of the Holocaust, the silence and denial of its perpetrators. As such, in the postwar period, the perpetrators of the Holocaust also struggled to find the words to speak of what they had done. This short article goes on to speculate on the implications of the unspeakability of the Holocaust and other genocides. It suggests that this unspeakability is beginning to break down as desires are spoken of more openly. As such, it is possible that current and future generations will have to embark on a different struggle to that of Albert Friedlander. While he could count on an assumed moral consensus that the Holocaust was wrong, current and future generations may no longer be able to rely on this assumption.
Publication Date: September 1, 2020
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journal articles
While genocide, killing and transgressive acts of violence are common themes in metal, there is a relative absence of metal lyrics and other ways of engaging with the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews as a theme. This stands in contrast to premodern genocides that are often the subject of fascination. Even when the Holocaust is apparently ‘celebrated’ by neo-Nazi metal acts, some of the specificities of the genocide, together with its applicability to Jews today, may be elided and effaced. When the Holocaust is engaged with in non-neo-Nazi metal lyrics, it is usually with great care and the victims themselves are rarely mentioned. The Holocaust constitutes a ‘problem’ in metal that makes silence and absence a preferable option to engagement. The reasons for this lie in part in metal’s self-conscious avoidance of ‘politics’, the lack of salience of Jews and antisemitism, and the excessive nature of the Holocaust itself.
Publication Date: September 1, 2020
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews and Metal, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journal articles
The boundary-crossing of Haredim on the beach.
Publication Date: August 28, 2020
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
