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Award Winning Journalist & Author 

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Ghosts of a Holy War

October 1, 2024 - Union Square & Co.

"If you are going to read one book to help you understand the current Middle East tragedy, this is it." - Yossi Klein Halevi, author of the New York Times bestseller Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

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About Yardena Schwartz

Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer. From 2013 to 2023 she was based in Israel, where she reported for dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Economist, New York Review of Books, and Foreign Policy. She has also reported from Morocco, Nepal, Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, and the United States.​ Yardena previously worked at NBC News, including stints at The Today Show, Nightly News, and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, earned an Emmy nomination in 2013, and an RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting in 2016. ​ Ghosts of a Holy War is Yardena's first book.

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"Traces a direct line between Hebron in 1929 and last year's Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel...Ghosts of a Holy War is a good book about a bad mess."

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Ghosts of a Holy War

GHOSTS OF A HOLY WAR

The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

 

An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that continues to devastate.

YARDENA'S UPCOMING EVENTS

Beth El Synagogue

New Rochelle, NY

12.5.24

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Shalom Hartman Institute

New York, NY

12.17.24

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Merage Jewish Community Center

Irvine, CA

2.10.25

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YARDENA'S RECENT WORK

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