Dr Keith Kahn-Harris

Dr Keith Kahn-Harris

Senior Lecturer


Email: Keith.Kahn-Harris@lbc.ac.uk

Dr Keith Kahn-Harris is the Course Team for the MA programme and teaches the courses Understanding Jewish Communities, Talking About Israel as well as courses on dissertation preparation. As a sociologist whose research interests include the contemporary British Jewish community, he has conducted research for several Jewish communal organisations and he runs the European Jewish Research Archive at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. He has taught and guest lectured at a number of universities in the UK and worldwide and is an associate lecturer in the Department of Psycho-Social Studies, Birkbeck College. Dr Kahn-Harris has published prolifically in academic and non-academic publications and his Jewish-themed books include: What Does A Jew Look Like? (Five Leaves Books 2022) Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity (Repeater, 2019) Denial: The Unspeakable Truth (Notting Hill Editions,  2018), Uncivil War: The Israel Conflict in the Jewish Community (David Paul Books 2014), Judaism: All That Matters (Hodder Education 2012) and Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today (Continuum 2010). His personal website can be found here.