My Life as a Jew, 9781761380471
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A searing exploration of Jewish identity in a world turning against it.

My Life as a Jew

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    2 October 2023

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Summary

A multi-award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of a major Australian newspaper searingly explores his Jewish identity at a time when a substantial - and growing - part of the left is opposed to the very existence of Israel as a Jewish state.

Born in a displaced persons’ camp two years after the end of the Holocaust, Michael Gawenda spent his childhood and teenage years in a left-wing non-Zionist Jewish youth group in Melbourne. This shaped the sort of Jew he became - a se…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761380471
ISBN-10:1761380478
Author:Michael Gawenda
Publisher:Scribe Publications
Imprint:Scribe Publications
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:2 October 2023
Weight:360g
Dimensions:234mm x 154mm x 20mm
About The Author

Michael Gawenda

Michael Gawenda is one of Australia’s best-known journalists and authors. In a career spanning four decades, he was a political reporter, a foreign correspondent based in London and in Washington, a columnist, a feature writer, and a senior editor at Time Magazine. He was editor and editor-in-chief of The Age from 1997 to 2004.

Michael Gawenda has won numerous journalism awards, including three Walkley awards. He was the inaugural director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne, and is the author of four books.

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