The lemon tree : an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East / Sandy Tolan

By: Tolan, SandyMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury Pub. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: xiv, 362 pages : maps ; 25 cmISBN: 1582343438; 9781582343433; 1596913436; 9781596913431Subject(s): Palestinian Arabs -- Biography | Israelis -- Biography | Arab-Israeli conflict -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biography. LOC classification: DS126.6.A2 | T65 2006DS126.6.A2 | T65 2006Online resources: Table of contents | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Bell -- House -- Rescue -- Expulsion -- Emigration -- Refuge -- Arrival -- War -- Encounter -- Explosion -- Deportation -- Hope -- Homeland -- The lemon tree
Summary: The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people--one Israeli, one Palestinian--that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into Israel, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes; their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. Two were turned away, but the third was met at the door by a young woman who invited them in. This act, in the face of years of animosity, is the starting point for a true story of a remarkable relationship between two families, one Arab, one Jewish. In the lemon tree his father planted in the backyard, Bashir sees dispossession and occupation; Dalia, who arrived as an infant in 1948, sees hope for a people devastated by the Holocaust.--From publisher description
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-282) and index

Bell -- House -- Rescue -- Expulsion -- Emigration -- Refuge -- Arrival -- War -- Encounter -- Explosion -- Deportation -- Hope -- Homeland -- The lemon tree

The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people--one Israeli, one Palestinian--that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into Israel, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes; their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. Two were turned away, but the third was met at the door by a young woman who invited them in. This act, in the face of years of animosity, is the starting point for a true story of a remarkable relationship between two families, one Arab, one Jewish. In the lemon tree his father planted in the backyard, Bashir sees dispossession and occupation; Dalia, who arrived as an infant in 1948, sees hope for a people devastated by the Holocaust.--From publisher description

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