Full name: City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

Author: Adam LeBor Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History Culture: Israel Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393329841 0393329844

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.  Similar books: The Attack on the Liberty by James Scott Israel by Anita Shapira A Lethal Obsession by Robert S. Wistrich Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer From Babylon to Timbuktu by Rudolph R. Windsor Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw Underground by Haruki Murakami Washington's Immortals by Patrick K. O'Donnell Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga American Gun by Chris Kyle Mythos by Stephen Fry No Way Out by Mitch Weiss Dress in Anglo-Saxon England by Gale R. Owen-Crocker