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Click here to registerWhen a family in Memphis, Tennessee, discovers a box of century-old letters in their attic, a journey begins: not only to learn about the young man who wrote the letters from the holy city of Hebron in British Mandate Palestine, but about the massacre that took his life in 1929. Award-winning journalist Yardena Schwartz draws from these letters, along with extensive research and wide-ranging interviews of Israelis and Palestinians now living in Hebron, to tell a timely, captivating narrative. By illuminating the echoes of 1929 in Hamas’s massacre of October 7, 2023, Schwartz vividly illustrates how little has changed—and how much of our perspective must change if peace is ever to come to this tortured land and its people, who are destined to share it.
Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer who has worked at ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC. Based in Israel from 2013-2023, her reporting from four continents has been featured in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, New York Review of Books, Time, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, received an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC in 2013, and was awarded the 2016 RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting. Yardena now lives in Warwick with her husband and children. Ghosts of a Holy War is her first book.
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Open Enrollment Date:03/20/2026
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