{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Franks\u003c\/b\u003e has presented \u003ci\u003eNewshour\u003c\/i\u003e, the flagship news and current affairs programme on the BBC World Service, since 2013. Before that, he spent almost 20 years as a reporter, nine of them as a foreign correspondent, covering several major conflicts. He cut his teeth reporting on the Troubles in Northern Ireland and became the \u003ci\u003eToday \u003c\/i\u003eprogramme's special political correspondent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim won one of the most prestigious international war-reporting awards - the Bayeux - for his coverage of war in Gaza.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580108144914,"sku":"9781399423083","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3036ca1c-a7f4-4e9f-957c-84f390f9b647.jpg?v=1756205429","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lines-we-draw-the-journalist-the-jew-and-an-argument-about-identity-9781399423083","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}