Sorry, British Non-Jews: You Don’t Get To Decide Who The Good Jews Are
The Forward
Publication Date: April 3, 2018
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, 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!
Book review: The Rage
New Humanist
Review of: The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism (IB Tauris) by Julia Ebner
Publication Date: Spring 2018
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Book reviews
Orphaned Land: the Israeli heavy metal band with fans across the Middle East
New Statesman
The band fuse Jewish and Arab music with heavier sounds, but they can't escape the contraditions at the heart of their homeland.
Publication Date: March 5, 2018
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews and Metal, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Review: Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest, by Dean Vuletic
Times Higher Education
Keith Kahn-Harris on a pan-European event that is as much about competition and national identities as it is cooperation and friendship
Publication Date: March 1, 2018
Theme: Music
Category: Book reviews
Book Review: Obligation in exile: the Jewish diaspora, Israel and critique, by Ilan Zvi Baron,
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17(1)
Publication Date: 2018
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
Cloaked In Pretensions, Gilad Atzmon’s Anti-Semitism Soldiers On
The Forward
[Atzmon published a response here - https://gilad.online/writings/2017/12/12/bread-butter-and-brotherhoo - featuring a hilariously juvenile illustration of me, which I've proudly attached to this record]
Publication Date: December 10, 2017
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Listening to the devil’s sounds
Boundless
What renders some musical tones and genres illicit, immoral, even diabolical? Keith Kahn-Harris investigates 'dangerous' music
Publication Date: December 2017
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Music
Category: Journalism and essays
What does a Jew look like? (Story by Hilary Freeman)
Jewish Chronicle
When the mainstream press publishes a Jewish story, how do they illustrate it? With Charedi Jews photographed from behind
[Based on interview with me]
Publication Date: November 8, 2017
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Interviews
What going to a Metallica concert with my daughter taught me about modern infrastructure
Medium
Utopia and dystopia all in one evening
Publication Date: October 26, 2017
Theme: Best Of, Culture, Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Towards an Exhausted Sociology
The Sociological Review Blog
Publication Date: October 25, 2017
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Labour’s amendment on antisemitism should reassure Jewish supporters
The Guardian
Publication Date: September 26, 2017
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Book Review: Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent by Amber Clifford-Napoleone
Metal Music Studies 3 (3): 474–76
Publication Date: 2017
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book reviews
(With Dougald Hine) A crack in history? – a conversation between two recent UK Labour Party recruits
Open Democracy
We need to find a way to build political movements that make space for difficult questions, for diversity, for ambivalence. But how?
Publication Date: August 31, 2017
Theme: Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
My questions over the CAA’s hasty questionnaire
Jewish Chronicle
See also the response by Gideo Falter of the Campaign Against Antisemitism - https://www.thejc.com/comment/opinion/our-dedication-to-ensuring-caa-hate-stats-add-up-1.443631 and my further response to him here - https://medium.com/@keithkahnharris/a-response-to-gideon-falter-of-the-campaign-against-antisemitism-90d6a2c3520d
Publication Date: August 25, 2017
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Community, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
My questions over the CAA’s hasty questionnaire
Jewish Chronicle
Publication Date: August 25, 2017
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journalism and essays
White power music and the changing face of extremism
New Humanist
Hate rock was a crucial part of previous fascist movements in the US and UK. But today’s populist far-right lacks a soundtrack.
[Essay review of Reichsrock (Rutgers University Press) by Kirsten Dyck and Trendy Fascism (State University of New York Press) by Nancy S Love]
Publication Date: Summer 2017
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Metal Music and Culture, Music
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Excuse all the blood
So Fi Zine
My first attempt at fiction! Based very very loosely on my PhD fieldwork on the Israeli metal scene.
Publication Date: June 24, 2017
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Metal Music and Culture, Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Book Review: Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music by Stephen Graham
Metal Music Studies 3 (2): 353–55
Publication Date: June 1, 2017
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Music
Category: Book reviews