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Citation |
Gidley B, Kahn-Harris K. Br. J. Sociol. 2012; 63(1): 168-187. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2012, London School of Economics and Political Science, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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Abstract |
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. |
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Keywords |
Anglo-Jewry; assimilation; community; ethnicity; insecurity; multiculturalism |