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The Communal Gadfly : Jews, British Jews and the Jewish State: Asking the Subversive Questions / Geoffrey Alderman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781934843468
  • 9781618110565
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.892 4041 22
LOC classification:
  • DS135.E5 A5774 2009eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- I. THE BOARD OF DEPUTIES OF BRITISH JEWS and THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL -- II. BRITISH JEWS and BRITISH POLITICS -- III. KENNETH ROBERT LIVINGSTONE -- IV. ORTHODOXY and NON-ORTHODOXY -- V. ORTHODOXY and ULTRA-ORTHODOXY -- VI. JONATHAN HENRY SACKS -- VII. ISRAEL AND ITS ENEMIES -- VIII. THE PROBLEM WITH ISLAM -- IX. ISLAMIC JUDEOPHOBIA -- X. WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... -- XI. EXPOSING MYTHS -- XII. NAZISM -- XIII. SEX -- XIV. ISLAMOPHOBIA
Summary: Founded in 1841, the London-based Jewish Chronicle is the world’s oldest continuously circulating Jewish newspaper. Since 2002 its prestigious flagship “Comment” column has been written by Oxford-educated Dr. Geoffrey Alderman, the leading authority on the Jews of modern Britain, a prolific and controversial scholar whose views have attracted warm support and sweeping condemnation in equal measure. This anthology brings together over a hundred of his Jewish Chronicle op-eds on subjects as diverse as Jewish Orthodoxy, Ultra-Orthodoxy, Non-Orthodoxy, Islamic Judeophobia, Islamophobia and Jewish approaches to politics and sex. “I have tried to be funny,” Alderman declares, “when occasion has seemed to me to warrant the deployment of a certain humour, which can be a valuable didactic tool and a powerful medium of communication. I have on occasion employed sarcasm and irony. But I have always tried to be scrupulously accurate as to facts, and to locate my comment within that groundwork. Above all, true to my vocation as a rebel who has refused to toe the communal line, I have always presented a point of view that is unashamedly mine.”
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- I. THE BOARD OF DEPUTIES OF BRITISH JEWS and THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL -- II. BRITISH JEWS and BRITISH POLITICS -- III. KENNETH ROBERT LIVINGSTONE -- IV. ORTHODOXY and NON-ORTHODOXY -- V. ORTHODOXY and ULTRA-ORTHODOXY -- VI. JONATHAN HENRY SACKS -- VII. ISRAEL AND ITS ENEMIES -- VIII. THE PROBLEM WITH ISLAM -- IX. ISLAMIC JUDEOPHOBIA -- X. WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... -- XI. EXPOSING MYTHS -- XII. NAZISM -- XIII. SEX -- XIV. ISLAMOPHOBIA

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Founded in 1841, the London-based Jewish Chronicle is the world’s oldest continuously circulating Jewish newspaper. Since 2002 its prestigious flagship “Comment” column has been written by Oxford-educated Dr. Geoffrey Alderman, the leading authority on the Jews of modern Britain, a prolific and controversial scholar whose views have attracted warm support and sweeping condemnation in equal measure. This anthology brings together over a hundred of his Jewish Chronicle op-eds on subjects as diverse as Jewish Orthodoxy, Ultra-Orthodoxy, Non-Orthodoxy, Islamic Judeophobia, Islamophobia and Jewish approaches to politics and sex. “I have tried to be funny,” Alderman declares, “when occasion has seemed to me to warrant the deployment of a certain humour, which can be a valuable didactic tool and a powerful medium of communication. I have on occasion employed sarcasm and irony. But I have always tried to be scrupulously accurate as to facts, and to locate my comment within that groundwork. Above all, true to my vocation as a rebel who has refused to toe the communal line, I have always presented a point of view that is unashamedly mine.”

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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