Tolan, Sandy.
The lemon tree : an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East / Sandy Tolan - First U.S. edition - xiv, 362 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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
1582343438 9781582343433 1596913436 9781596913431
2005030360
Palestinian Arabs--Biography.
Israelis--Biography.
Arab-Israeli conflict--Biography
DS126.6.A2 / T65 2006 DS126.6.A2 / T65 2006
956.945
The lemon tree : an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East / Sandy Tolan - First U.S. edition - xiv, 362 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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
1582343438 9781582343433 1596913436 9781596913431
2005030360
Palestinian Arabs--Biography.
Israelis--Biography.
Arab-Israeli conflict--Biography
DS126.6.A2 / T65 2006 DS126.6.A2 / T65 2006
956.945