ENGLISH

City of Oranges

By Adam LeBor

Book information

Publisher
Head of Zeus
Year
2017
ISBN
1786695936, 9781786695932
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
17 MB (18174776 bytes)
Edition
Updated
Pages
464\0
Time added
2022-01-03 14:29:51

Description

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 together and 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 LeBor gives us a crucial look at the human lives behind the headlines and a vivid narrative of cataclysmic change.

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