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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
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Yardena Schwartz I don't read much fiction, but the book world I'd want to visit is Gertrude Stein's Paris in the 1920's, simply to be a fly on the wall at the apartme…moreI don't read much fiction, but the book world I'd want to visit is Gertrude Stein's Paris in the 1920's, simply to be a fly on the wall at the apartment she shared with her partner, Alice, sitting in on one of their "salons" with artists and writers like Picasso, Dali and Hemingway.(less)
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"Truly superb - among other things, the author shows that the Mufti of Jerusalem - Haj Amin Al Husseini - was in the service of the Nazis during WW2. And guess who his cousin was? None other than that weasel Yasser Arafat. "
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