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Howard Jacobson "Roots Schmoots"

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Anyone read ? about his journey to find his roots , in a personal ( Lithuanian Jews ) and wider sense .

No I haven't. Although I've liked Howard Jacobson, whenever I've read a piece by him in the newspaper, or watched him on television.

Do you recommend it?

I reread it last week Fiona, it came out years ago when they made a tv series of it, I really enjoyed it, I like his rather sharp tongue lol :)

"From Publishers Weekly
When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson ( Peeping Tom ) to put off a trip to Lithuania planned as a search for his Jewish roots, he accepted an offer from the BBC to visit Jewish communities around the globe instead. This informed and witty account of his experiences deals with the wide variety of contemporary Jewish life, as well as with how Jacobson's observations affected his own concept of what it means to be a Jew. Riding an emotional roller coaster, he witnessed the hostility between Jews and African Americans in New York City, attended services in a gay synagogue in California and found his basic cynicism about religion reinforced after he spent time with Orthodox Jews in Israel, although his spirits were lifted by a visit to an idealistic, tolerant Israeli kibbutz. His journey concluded with the postponed trip to Lithuania"

Ah! It's beginning to ring bells now, I think I must have seen it on the telly at the time. I'll have a look on Amazon to see if they have a copy :))