Yardena Schwartz

Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning independent journalist, Emmy-nominated producer, and author of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Her reporting from four continents has been published in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Time, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, and Foreign Policy. She has also worked at NBC News, including stints at the Today show, Nightly News with Brian Williams, and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. Yardena graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011 and received an Emmy nomination in 2013. She then spent a decade reporting from Israel, earning the 2016 RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting. She now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband and children. Ghosts of a Holy War is Yardena's first book.