Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Kai Bird

Edmond J. Safra Hall, Museum of Jewish Heritage--May 24, 2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kai Bird discusses his memoir "Crossing Mandelbaum Gate" with Gabriel Sanders, deputy editor, Tablet Magazine. As a child, each day on his way to school, Bird passed through Mandelbaum Gate—separating Israeli-controlled West Jerusalem from the Arab-controlled East. Bird's fascinating memoir as as an American growing who grew up in the midst of wars in the Middle East from the 1950s through the 1970s, Bird provides an illuminating perspective into on the Arab-Israeli conflict in this fascinating memoir.

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