A moving, deeply empathetic memoir about Jewish family and history, which encourages us all to confront the lines we draw.
As a Jewish journalist covering the Middle East, Tim Franks has over the years been accused of being both a self-hating Jew and an Islamophobe. He always tried to draw a clear line between his identity and his work. Up to the point that he asked himself: is that necessary? Is it such a combustible mix? They were questions he struggled to answer. To begin with, he was a Jew without much of a back-story.
So he set out on a journey for his ancestral roots, one which took him from Constantinople to Cura-, from Auschwitz to Lithuania to Downing Street. Along the way he challenged how he saw not just himself but the world. This is a moving, deeply empathetic memoir, which encourages us all to confront the lines we draw.
TIM FRANKS presents Newshour on the BBC World Service, with a global audience of millions. He was previously a BBC repor
