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Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel. By Jerold S. Auerbach. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. 223 pp. $34.95.
It takes a careful and measured historian to do justice to the long history of Jewish life in Hebron and its restoration after the terrible 1929 Arab pogrom that decimated the community. Auerbach, a professor of history at Wellesley College, has succeeded.
Hebron is the cradle of Judaism, the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs, and was the capital of Israel under King David before Jerusalem came to...