Memoir by Issa J. Boullata, a Palestinian literary scholar, recounting his childhood in Jerusalem before 1948, preserving vivid sensory memories of the city's Palestinian community life, streets, churches, schools, and social rituals. Boullata's account documents the texture of everyday Palestinian neighborhood life in the years before the Nakba upended his community, providing a lyrical record of a society on the eve of its dispossession. Recommended for researchers and general readers seeking firsthand literary testimony about Palestinian life in Jerusalem before 1948, with Boullata's memoir particularly valuable for its detailed evocation of Christian Palestinian community life in the city in the years leading up to the Nakba.
