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Dr Brian Klug

Senior Research Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy
St. Benet’s Hall

brian.klug@stb.ox.ac.uk

St Benet's Hall
Oxford, OX1 3LN

Personal website: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brian_klug/

Research Interests

Currently working on questions of Jewish identity, antisemitism, race and multiculturalism

Brian Klug

Career & Education

B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy (University of London)
Ph.D. in Social Thought (University of Chicago)
Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Xavier University. Chicago
Hon. Fellow, Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton

Books

  1. Being Jewish and Doing Justice: Bringing Argument to Life, Vallentine Mitchell, 2011

  2. Offence: The Jewish Case, Seagull Books, 2009

  3. A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity (co-edited with A. Karpf, J. Rose and B. Rosenbaum), Verso, 2008

  4. Children as Equals: Exploring the Rights of the Child (co-edited with Dr. K. Alaimo), University Press of America, 2002

  5. Ethics, Value and Reality: Selected Papers of Aurel Kolnai (co-edited with Dr. F. Dunlop), Athlone Press, 1977

  6. The Grading Game, NUS Publications, 1977

  7. A Question of Degree: Assorted Papers on Assessment (ed.), The Nuffield Foundation, 1976

Articles and Reviews (selected)

  1. 'A People Apart?', Jewish Quarterly, Spring 2011

  2. 'Antisemitism in the Hall of Mirrors' (review of Denis MacShane, Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism), The Political Quarterly, October-December 2009

  3. 'A Plea for Distinctions: Disentangling Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism', Think (Royal Institute of Philosophy), Winter 2008

  4. 'Tricks of Memory: Auschwitz and the Question of Palestinian Terrorism', in Stephen Law (ed.), Israel, Palestine and Terror, Continuum, 2008

  5. 'Die Sicht auf Israel als "Jude der Welt"', in J. Bunzl and A. Senfft (eds.), Zwischen Antisemitismus und Islamophobie, VSA, 2008

  6. 'The State of Zionism', The Nation, June 2007 

  7. 'A Contradiction in "The New Europe"', in Matti Bunzl, Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe, University of Chicago Press, 2007

  8. Review of Signposts to the Messianic Age (by Rabbi Dr. John Rayner), in Manna, Spring 2006

  9. ‘In Search of Clarity’, Catalyst (Commission for Racial Equality), March 2006

  10. Review of Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai (ed. Z. Balazs & F. Dunlop) in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Feb. 2006

  11. ‘Anti-semitism and the left’, Red Pepper, January 2006

  12. Review of We Europeans? Mass-Observation, ‘Race’ and British Identity in the Twentieth Century (by T. Kushner), in Journal of Jewish Studies, autumn 2005

  13. ‘Joffe’s Flight of Fantasy’, Foreign Policy, March/April 2005

  14. ‘Is Europe a lost cause? The European debate on antisemitism and the Middle East Conflict’, Patterns of Prejudice, March 2005

  15. ‘Marks of a Mindset – Seeing a Global War against the Jews’, Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, 2005

  16. ‘The Other Balfour: Recalling the 1905 Aliens Act’, The Jewish Year Book, 2005

  17. 'The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism', The Nation, February 2004

  18. 'The Collective Jew: Israel and the New Antisemitism', Patterns of Prejudice, June 2003

  19. 'A Time to Speak Out: Rethinking Jewish Identity and Solidarity with Israel', Jewish Quarterly, winter 2003

  20. 'The Language of Race', Patterns of Prejudice, July 1999

  21. 'Thoreau's Word for Nature', The Personalist Forum, spring 1998

  22. 'Can We See a Moral Question about Animals?' in Animals on the Agenda, A. Linzey and D. Yamamoto (eds.), SCM Press, 1998

  23. 'Old Ghosts in the New World: Racism and Ethnicity in Contemporary America, Patterns of Prejudice, April-July, 1995

  24. 'Ritual Murmur: The Undercurrent of Protest against Religious Slaughter of Animals in Britain in the 1980s', Patterns of Prejudice, summer 1989

  25. 'Overkill: The Polemic against Ritual Slaughter', Jewish Quarterly, summer 1989

  26. 'Springtime in Chicago: A Pattern of Politics and Prejudice', Patterns of Prejudice, autumn 1988

  27. 'Lab Animals, Francis Bacon and the Culture of Science', Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture, winter 1983

  28. 'Language, Science and the Question of Farm Animal Abuse', Humane Education Journal, January 1983

  29. 'On Doing, Teaching and Studying Philosophy', Studies in Higher Education October 1979

  30. 'To Grade, or Not to Grade', Studies in Higher Education, October 1976