title: Contemporary Anglo-Jewish community leadership: coping with multiculturalism.
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.
authors.affiliation: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, Birkbeck College, University of London. Ben.gidley@compas.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gidley
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kahn-Harris
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006801:Humans; D007585:Jews / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice; D012449:Safety; D012922:Social Change; D012944:Social Support; D012961:Sociology; D006113:United Kingdom