{"product_id":"the-lines-we-draw-the-journalist-the-jew-and-an-argument-about-identity-9781399423083","title":"The Lines We Draw: The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument about Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving journey through a Jewish family history from BBC Newshour presenter Tim Franks.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim Franks spent years as the BBC's Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. During that time, he was attacked as a self-hating Jew and as an Islamophobe - as a tool of competing, malign agendas. He always tried to respond with a journalist's detached curiosity, drawing a clear line between his identity and his work. Up to the point that he asked himself: is that necessary? Beyond the judgments of others: what does it mean to be Jewish? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was a question he struggled to answer. As a child in 1970s Birmingham, Tim was a practising Jew with hardly any relations or sense of lineage. And so he embarked on a search for his ancestral roots, from Constantinople to Curaçao, from Amsterdam to the death camps, from Lithuania to Downing Street. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFraming each part of his journey through what he has learned as a journalist, Tim discovers ancestors who all speak to a part of the Jewish story: there are the refugees and the risk-takers; the artists, rabbis, soldiers and revolutionaries; there is even a route to the Conservative Party's unlikeliest leader, Benjamin Disraeli. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a deeply empathetic memoir which encourages us all to confront the lines we draw. In searching for what it is to be Jewish, Tim discovers what it means to take a stand and write about the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Continuum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399423083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.02w x 1.00d","brand":"Tim Franks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51334124208309,"sku":"9781399423083","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5d54c2b6-8731-4088-9aad-76eb09da0690.jpg?v=1752583813","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-lines-we-draw-the-journalist-the-jew-and-an-argument-about-identity-9781399423083","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}