Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict

An award-winning journalist presents a thoroughly researched examination of the Israel-Palestine conflict, reissued with a new postscript. "[A] compelling story. . . . If you are going to read one book to help you understand the current Middle East tragedy, this is it."-Yossi Klein Halevi, senior fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, and author of the New York Times bestseller Letters to My Palestinian NeighborWhen 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 il