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Article: City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2008
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City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa. By Adam LeBron. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. Pp. xxv, 424. $14.95.)
Now sadly a shell of its former self, Jaffa, once a major commercial and cultural center, was the queen city of historic Palestine. This author has produced a welcome addition to the growing number of studies on Palestinian cities. Both historians and casual readers will find much of interest in Adam LeBron's work.
Jaffa prospered from the fruits of the surrounding lush orange groves from which the book takes its title. LeBron captures the complex tapestry of life in this Mediterranean port city from the early ...