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Ghosts of a Holy War

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Drama

When a family in Memphis, Tennessee discover a box of century-old letters in their attic, a journey begins: not only to learn about the young man who wrote the letters from the holy city of Hebron in British Mandate Palestine, but about the massacre that took his life in 1929.

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