About
Yardena Schwartz
📍 New York, NY, USA
- The role of the international press in perpetuating the war in Gaza, and the conflict itself
- The 1929 massacre in Hebron, and the true origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict;
- Reporting from the most reported place on Earth;
Journalism, Media, Author, History
Bio
Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated producer, and author of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Oct. 1, 2024, Union Square & Co).
From 2013 to 2023 she was based in Israel, where she reported for dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, The Economist, New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, and NBC News, among others. She has also reported from Morocco, Nepal, Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, and the United States.
Yardena previously worked at NBC News, including stints at The Today Show, Nightly News, and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, earned an Emmy nomination in 2013, and an RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting in 2016. Ghosts of a Holy War is Yardena's first book.
Originally from New Jersey, Yardena made Aliyah in 2013. She now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband and children.
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Ghosts of a Holy War