The Lines We Draw
The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument About Identity
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The Lines We Draw
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A moving journey through a Jewish family history from BBC Newshour presenter Tim Franks.
Tim 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.
Framing 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.
This 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.©2025 Tim Franks (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Commentaires
The book is stunning. He is an extraordinary writer. Such erudition. Wisdom. Humanity. And humour. A work of immense generosity at a time when we badly need it.
Thought provoking… a most deeply researched family history. And what a history that is.
What a brave outpouring! Tim Franks’ book The Lines We Draw is the light in the dark channel of finding who we are. It opens up a new perspective, showing that identity is no longer defined only by primitive attributes like gender, skin colour, nationality or religion, but by the courage to grow beyond restrictions and recognize the depth and significance of the world beyond ourselves.
An extraordinary cast of characters, summoned back to life by a reporter with a gift for telling a story.
What makes this brilliant, considered book worthwhile is not its breadth but how thoughtful it is. (Stephen Bush)
A taut, satisfyingly woven narrative about being Jewish and a journalist.
A fascinating story.
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