The Lemon Tree

An Arab, A Jew, And The Heart Of The Middle East

BY SANDY TOLAN

Brief Description:
Required for Workshop 31. The Question of Palestine & Israel (Skip Schiel).In 1967, Bashir, a 25 year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled 19 years earlier. To his surprise he was greeted by Dalia, a 19 year-old Israeli student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home they began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next 35 years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967.

Bloomsbury 2007 362 PP. Paper

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