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City of Oranges An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

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ISBN-10: 0393329844

ISBN-13: 9780393329841

Edition: 2007

Authors: Adam LeBor

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A profoundly human take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seen through the eyes of six families, three Arab and three Jewish. The millennia-old port of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, was once known as the "Bride of Palestine," one of the truly cosmopolitan cities of the Mediterranean. There Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived, worked, and celebrated togetherand it was commonplace for the Arabs of Jaffa to attend a wedding at the house of the Jewish Chelouche family or for Jews and Arabs to both gather at the Jewish spice shop Tiv and the Arab Khamis Abulafia's twenty-four-hour bakery. Through intimate personal interviews and generations-old memoirs, letters, and diaries, Adam Le Bor gives…    
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Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 482
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Adam LeBor lives in Budapest and writes for the Economist, Newsweek, New York Times, The Times and other publications. He is the author of a number of nonfiction books, including the Orwell Prize shortlisted Hitler's Secret Bankers.

Maps
Illustrations
Dramatis personae
Author's note
Introduction
A Bartered Bride
Tel Aviv Is Born
Jaffa Strikes
A Widening Divide
Palestine Beckons
Days of Hunger
The White City Shines
Jaffa Prepares for War
Al-Nakba-The Catastrophe
Jaffa Has New Masters
Sofia-by-the-Sea
Coming Home to Jaffa
New Lives
Repopulating Jaffa
Saving Old Jaffa
Six Days That Shook the World
The Ghosts of Old Jaffa
War, Once More
Talking and Fighting
Seaside Urban Sprawl
Going Home to the Sea
Gaza Comes to Jaffa
Separation
Islam on the March
A Possible Future
Afterword
Notes
Chronology
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Index