Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre

Yardena Schwartz is an Emmy-nominated journalist and author of “Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict.” This work of narrative nonfiction tells the gripping story of a young American, David Shainberg, who was one of the 67 Jews murdered in the 1929 Hebron massacre, the aftershocks of which continue to plague Israel one century later and are especially haunting in light of the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of 1200. Join this conversation to hear what led up to the Hebron massacre almost 100 years ago and what took place that horrific day, how David ended up in Hebron from Memphis to begin with and his own reports from the Holy Land, and how the similarities then to the massacre of 2023 remind us that Israel’s enemies are unrelenting and whether there is any h ...