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What defines our identity? What gives us a sense of rootedness in one place or another? What determines the places and communities in which we feel at home? In this book, Rabbi David Goldberg grapples with the idea of rootlessness - the feeling of never quite belonging. As a young Jewish boy growing up in Manchester, Goldberg felt slightly removed from the northern city, a feeling which continued through education at Oxford University and rabbinic training at the Leo Baeck College. Goldberg has always argued the advantages of being both English and Jewish, the recipient of a double heritage that embraced William the Conqueror and Magna Carta on the one hand, and Abraham and Moses on the other. For him, broadly-based, eclectic liberal humanism has been more enriching than religious parochialism, and being familiar with two cultures, therefore able to adapt almost anywhere in a western civic milieu, makes for a more rounded personality. Yet in this book he faces the realities of being rootless, unravelling the different pieces of identity and community which shaped him - and in doing so, identifies the factors which shape us all as individuals.

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Rabbi Dr. David J. Goldberg OBE is Rabbi Emeritus of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, having served the congregation as Associate and then Senior Rabbi since 1975. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Oxford University, and Trinity College, Dublin and received his Rabbinic Ordination from the Leo Baeck College in 1971. He has contributed regularly on Jewish and Israeli topics to major newspapers and journals, including The Times, the Sunday Times, Observer, Guardian, Independent, Mail on Sunday, New Statesman and History Today. He is the author of The Divided Self: Israel and the Jewish Psyche Today and This is Not the Way: Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel.

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