Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Author, award-winning independent journalist and Emmy-nominated producer Yardena Schwartz will read from her book Ghosts of the Holy War, The 1929 Hebron massacre illustrates how a shocking, yet-little known mass murder in what was then Palestine became a war that continues to this day. Schwartz was based in Israel for a decade until 2023. Her reporting has appeared in the New York Times, the Economist and Time. She worked at NBC news, the "Today Show," "Nightly News with Brian Williams" and received an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC.