Displaced, Dysfunctional & Divided: Contemporary British Jewish Writing

In fiction, memoirs and journalism, writers are addressing increasingly challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty-first century. This article will explore the ways in which these questions are debated within a range of contemporary Jewish literature. The article concludes that contemporary British-Jewish writers highlight the desire to identify the particularity of their difference, whilst acknowledging that that difference is neither fixed nor final, but always open to change, re-signification and re-interpretation.