Review: Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity by Jonathan Freedman
Jewish Quarterly
Publication Date: Summer 2008
Theme: Culture, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
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!
Impaired (Euro)vision
The Guardian
The UK and Ireland sneer at other European countries' song contest entries. But do they really have the right to feel superior?
Publication Date: May 19, 2008
Theme: Music
Category: Journalism and essays
It’s not just for ME I ask
Times Higher Education
Academia needs to be more accommodating to those who cannot or choose not to work full time, argues Keith Kahn-Harris
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
What it really means to be healthy
The Guardian
After a bout of glandular fever at university, Keith Kahn-Harris developed chronic fatigue syndrome, from which he still suffers. He explains how this debilitating and misunderstood illness has changed his life for ever
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
Theme: Best Of, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
A real peace movement?
The Guardian
We need a peace movement that recognises the pain and the suffering on both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Publication Date: March 6, 2008
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Journalism and essays
How to talk about things we know nothing about
Open Democracy
Publication Date: February 21, 2008
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Miscellaneous
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Intra-faith to faith
The Guardian
The government's emphasis is on building relationships between religious communities. But what about conflict within those groups?
Publication Date: January 15, 2008
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Religion
Category: Journalism and essays
Exploring Scenes
In: Talkie Walkie: [jongerensubculture] 4 believers/non-believers, Acco, 2007 pp94-105.
Publication Date: December 12, 2007
Theme: Culture, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book chapters
No conspiracy here
The Guardian
The Jewish angle on the Labour donations scandal sheds an interesting light on the party's funding mechanism, but is not evidence of a sinister cabal
Publication Date: December 6, 2007
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
How to be Left
The Guardian
Arguments within the left are often bad-tempered and devoid of nuance. Instead, a spirit of comradeship is called for
Publication Date: November 29, 2007
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
The politics of assimilation
The Guardian
Britain's chief rabbi has attracted attention with a critique of multiculturalism. But aren't his ideas a little anachronistic?
Publication Date: November 16, 2007
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Dialogue, Debate and Political Commitment
Liberal Conspiracy
Publication Date: November 16, 2007
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Dwellers and Seekers
Jewish Quarterly
Keith Kahn-Harris examines the dialectic between stability and creativity among British Jews.
Publication Date: Autumn 2007
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journal articles, Journalism and essays
The seductions of denial
Open Democracy
Publication Date: September 13, 2007
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Journalism and essays
Review: A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward
New Humanist
Publication Date: September 7, 2007
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
The Harsh Noise of Deep Thinking
Times Higher Education
Review of: Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery, Edited by William Irwin
Publication Date: June 29, 2007
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book reviews
Findings of a Mapping Study of Efforts to Combat Anti-Semitism, Racism and Xenophobia at the Local, Communal and Grassroots Levels in Europe
Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College
Report commissioned by the Rothschild Foundation Europe and surveyed and evaluates organisations and initiatives committed to activism against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism in France, Germany, the UK, Belgium, Poland, Hungary and Italy.
Publication Date: May 10, 2007
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Community, Miscellaneous
Category: Reports and policy papers
Interview: Capital and Punishment
Terrorizer issue 157
Who holds the power in the extreme metal scene? Why does extreme metal produce so many contradictions and how can such a radical artform retain such earthiness? Jonathan Selzer got the answers to these questions and more from Keith Kahn-Harris, author of the far-reaching examination of the metal scene, 'Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Interviews