How the first mixed district to develop outside the Old City was emptied, divided, and used to warehouse Mizrahi immigrants
A fascinating biographical account of an intimate interfaith friendship among five young adults in Mandate Palestine. A book review.
One Jerusalem family’s story: The Nakba and its aftermath
While looking at family photos, siblings Teddy and Nadia Theodorie recall their displacement from Talbiyya in 1948.
A Palestinian who remained in West Jerusalem in 1948 recalls life there before and after the war. A book review.
“We lived here like kings”: Yacoub Ahmad Odeh fights Israeli plans to turn the depopulated village of Lifta into a new Jewish settlement.
A woman recalls her family leaving Lifta in 1948 in search of safety. But there was none to be had.
Jerusalemites born in the 1920s and 1930s recount their memories of growing up in Jerusalem and what they lost when they were forced to leave in 1948.