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Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated producer, and author of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict. From 2013 to 2023 Yardena was based in Israel, where she reported for dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Economist, New York Review of Books, and Foreign Policy. She has also reported from Morocco, Nepal, Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, and the United States.

Yardena previously worked at NBC News, including stints at The Today Show, Nightly News, and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, earned an Emmy nomination in 2013, and the Religion News Association ...more

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Yardena Schwartz made a comment on Terminus Best’s review of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict " Thanks so much for your review! An updated edition is being published in paperback in October 2026, with a postscript exploring the events that have u ...more "
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Yardena Schwartz liked Gary Holtzman's review of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict: "This is a truly extraordinary book that gives a long term perspective to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by examining the harrowing massacre that marked the beginning of a horrific war that see.s to have no end in sight. The echoes and the direct th" Read more of this review »
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