Description
What does a Jew look like? All too often the response is someone who wears a black hat and coat and has a beard. The real answer to the question is far more complicated and much more interesting.
This question is at the heart of a collaboration between writer and sociologist, Keith Kahn-Harris and award-winning photographic artist and journalist, Robert Stothard. Fed up with media clichés around a ‘typical’ Jewish person, they set out to illustrate the diversity of the Jewish community – and hear people’s stories.
Their book, What Does a Jew Look Like?, celebrates the countless ways that men and women can be Jewish in Britain today. For those of you curious to find out more, this illuminating conversation is designed to surprise, inform and beguile.
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About the Author
Keith Kahn-Harris
Dr Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist and writer, based in London. He is a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College, an associate lecturer and honorary fellow at Birkbeck College, and he is the project director of the European Jewish Research Archive at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. His most recent books are The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language (Icon) and (co-authored with Rob Stothard) What Does A Jew Look Like?
About the Journalist
Robert Stothard
Robert Stothard has photographed elections in Egypt, conflict in Ukraine and along the length of the Irish border. He is the co-author of two other publications, Tilbury and Removal: A Short Guide to the United Kingdom Immigration Detention Estate.
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