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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2018

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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is a 2018 book by the American-born Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi. Formatted as a collection of letters to a hypothetical Palestinian dialogue partner, Halevi seeks to explain Jewish Israeli perspectives on the issues that divide them and to invite the Palestinian side into a conversation aimed at building mutual understanding. Halevi is a former journalist who serves alongside Imam Abdullah Intepli as co-director of the Muslim Leadership Initiative through Duke University. Halevi is also the author of At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden, an exploration of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian spirituality in Israel, and Like Dreamers, a book on the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 2013. He is the son of a Holocaust survivor and has made his home in Israel since 1982.

This study guide uses the 2018 first edition of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, published by Harper.

Content Warning: This book presents a perspective on a divisive social and political issue, including reflections on historical traumas like the Holocaust and the Nakba. Where disputed terminology is an issue, this study guide uses terms which seek to encompass both sides (for example, referring to the broad geographic area in question as the Levant or as Israel/Palestine).

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