Everyday Jews: Why The Jewish People Are Not Who You Think They Are

Kahn-Harris, Keith

ISBN 10: 1837732116 / ISBN 13: 9781837732111

Published by Icon Books, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everyday Jews: Why The Jewish People Are Not Who You Think They Are
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837732116
• ISBN 13: 9781837732111
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

Can Jews be allowed to become boring?

With Israel and antisemitism constantly in the news, it seems as though the Jewish people - a fraction of a percentage of the world's population - have become synonymous with controversy, drama and anxiety. But what if there was another side to this persistently interesting people; one that non-Jews often don't know about and Jews rarely talk about? This is the stuff of 'everyday' Jewishness; the capacity to be ordinary, mundane and sometimes just plain dull.

Keith Kahn-Harris lifts the lid on this surprising world in a book for Jews and non-Jews alike. Arguing that his people's extraordinary public visibility today is harming the their ability to live everyday Jewish lives, he celebrates the mundanity and mediocrity of a people before it vanishes completely.

About the Author

DR. KEITH KAHN-HARRIS is a sociologist and author, based in London. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and a Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College. He also makes time for pursuing other interests outside the community, including extreme metal music and the warning messages in Kinder Surprise Eggs.
The author of nine books, his most recent publications are Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity, The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language (Icon) and (co-authored with Rob Stothard) What Does A Jew Look Like? Find out more at kahn-harris.org.