To my thinking this is a must read brilliant piece of writing. It is a unique honest view of antisemitism as it relates to otherness, hatred, jealousy and love. It was a little slow- very interior reading which is why I gave it four stars, even so, struggle through the slowness, it's worth it.

Jacobson explores the relationship of three friends in London, Julian Treslove, a Jew-want-to-be former BBC radio producer, Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish television personality and their former teacher Libor Sevcik. Each is a basic type exaggerated into a humorous multidimensional caricature interacting with each other,their children,wives,and lovers. Confronted with the worse aspects of humanity each chooses a different response taking the reader into one of the core social questions of our times.

At the beginning of the book,Treslove is attacked and robbed and convinced that he was incorrectly labeled a Jew by his attacker. This begins the whole “Finkler Question” centering around Treslove's obsessive love/hate relationship with Jews.

This book is a remarkable funny unflinching exploration of the Jewish experience with the wisdom and humanity of maturity as reflected in exclusion and belonging.