In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next half century in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, demonstrating that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and transformation.
Maps. Afterword. Research note. Suggested resources. Sources. Index.
Title alpha The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Category Biography Middle Plus
Pages Count 208
Genre Nonfiction
Topics Bashir Khayri. Dalia Eshkenazi Landau (1947– ). Palestinian Arabs. Biography. Israelis. Arab-Israeli conflict. Ramlah, Israel. Displacemement. Â
Trim Size 9" x 6"
JLG Span Winter
Language English
Rights type Print
Publication date 2020-10-05
JLG Release Date Jan 2021
Minimum grade 5
Maximum grade 8
Reading level Middle
Format Print
Biography Middle Plus (Grades 5-8)
Biography Middle Plus
Biography Middle Plus (Grades 5-8)
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