What Does a Jew Look Like?

In this episode, writer and sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris and award-winning photographic artist and journalist Robert Stothard discuss their book: What Does A Jew Look Like? Fed up with media clichés around a ‘typical’ Jewish person, they set out to illustrate the diversity of the Jewish community, and celebrate the countless ways that men and women can be Jewish in Britain today.

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.