Foreword by Geoffrey Alderman; Preface; With Open Arms; Beyond the Limits; Leading by Example; The Culture of Contempt; The Search for Survival; The Stanmore Accords; Interlude. From First to Second; The Indignity of Difference; The Crucible of Judaism; The Dynamic of Renewal; Rites and Wrongs; The Stanmore Discords; The Mirage of Unity; The Pull of Pluralism; Notes; Bibliography.
Now a freelance writer and editor, Meir Persoff edited the London Jewish Chronicle's news, features, arts, Judaism, letters and obituaries sections during a distinguished 40-year career on the paper. He has written extensively on Jewish topics notably Jewish art and Judaica and served on the Jewish Book Council and as president of the Israel-Judaica Philatelic Society. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he holds a London University MA (with distinction) in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, having specialised in modern Jewish history and the history of anti-Semitism, and earned his PhD from Middlesex University, London, for his research into the British Chief Rabbinate's relationship with the non-Orthodox movements. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Middlesex Commission Area in 2001.
‘'[Persoff] has been able to deploy his material against the
background of an extensive knowledge of the inner world of British
Jewry, gathered over a lifetime reporting and commenting upon it
without fear and without favour. Another Way, Another Time will
certainly not be the last word on Jonathan Sacks. But all who write
on this subject hereafter will need to measure their efforts
against the yardstick Dr Persoff has fashioned, and which he now
sets before us.’'
*Geoffrey Alderman, Michael Gross Professor of Politics and
Contemporary History at the University of Buckingham*
"[The book’s] major achievement is to gather abundant primary
source material, much of it taken from contemporary printed
material (e.g. The Jewish Chronicle, Manna and other Jewish
journals) and from archival collections at the London Metropolitan
Archives and the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton.
In addition, the author was given access to the private papers of
Rabbis Immanuel Jakobovits, Louis Jacobs, and Sidney Brichto. . . .
The sources presented by Persof . . . are balanced. . . . Persoff
has provided abundant documentary evidence about how fraught with
pitfalls the position is for a new Chief Rabbi today."
*Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Nov. 2013*
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