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Book Discussion of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the Heart of the Middle East


 The Holocaust Genocide Studies Project and the MCC Libraries will be collaborating again this semester to host a book discussion group, reading The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan.

According to Booklist: “To see in human scale the tragic collision of the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, Tolan focuses on one small stone house in Ramla – once an Arab community but now Jewish. Built in 1936 by an Arab family but acquired by a Jewish family after the Israelis captured the city in 1948, this simple stone house has anchored for decades the hopes of both its displaced former owners and its new Jewish occupants. With remarkable sensitivity to both families' grievances, Tolan chronicles the unlikely chain of events that in 1967 brought a long-dispossessed Palestinian son to the threshold of his former home, where he unexpectedly finds himself being welcomed by the daughter of Bulgarian Jewish immigrants. Though that visit exposes bitterly opposed interpretations of the past, it opens a real – albeit painful – dialogue about possibilities for the future.”

The book discussion will be held Friday, October 24, during College Hour (12:00 pm to 1:00 pm) in room 2-440 (4th floor of the Brighton campus library).  Please join us!

If you have any questions, please contact Lori Annesi, Reference/Special Collections Librarian <<
mailto:lannesi@monroecc.edu>>.  

Lori Annesi
MCC Libraries
09/26/2008