{"product_id":"9781399423083","title":"The Lines We Draw : The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument About Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Franks, Tim \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/07\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages, Black and white images throughout.,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781399423083,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA moving journey through a Jewish family history from BBC Newshour presenter Tim Franks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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?It 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55422455578997,"sku":"9781399423083","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781399423083.jpg?v=1748343852","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781399423083","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}