Har­ry Freed­man is Britain’s lead­ing author of best­selling, pop­u­lar works of Jew­ish cul­ture and his­to­ry. His pub­li­ca­tions include Shylock’s Venice, Leonard Cohen: The Mys­ti­cal Roots of Genius, The Tal­mud: A Biog­ra­phy, Bob Dylan: Jew­ish Roots, Amer­i­can Soil and Britain’s Jews. He lives in Lon­don with his wife Karen.