Culture

A Jewish awakening

March 04, 2009
Jews in Britain: better-informed
Jews in Britain: better-informed

The Jewish community in Britain has never been more vibrant. From the recent success of Jewish Book Week, to the growing number of faith schools, to the exploits of the iconoclastic collective, Jewdas (jewdas.org), which puts on events in squats that mix radical Jewish learning and wild klezmer-DJing—all signs point to a flowering of Jewish cultural life.

Yet many of its leaders detect unprecedented levels of anti-semitism in Britain today, and warn that Anglo-Jewry is under threat like never before; indeed, that it must fight for its very existence. Why is this? asks Keith Kahn-Harris in this week's web exclusive.

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