Blending travel writing, reportage, and personal reflection, Hillel Cohen journeys through East Jerusalem and the West Bank in search of conversations to bridge one of the world's most enduring conflicts.

In this powerful illustrated memoir, the journalist and scholar Hillel Cohen recounts his travels through the West Bank as a youth. Fervent and unafraid, the teenage Cohen wanders through Palestinian villages and homes with confidence because to do so is his birthright—or so he has always been told. But outside of Jerusalem and its tightly-knit Jewish community, his certainty begins to waver. Each new shared meal and open-hearted conversation across the religious divide calls the beliefs of his upbringing into question—so does the shock of hostile clashes he comes to witness along the journey.

With candor and humanity, Cohen's coming-of-age offers sharp and unflinching reflections on identity, memory, ethics, and nationhood amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Featuring vivid illustrations and comic strips by Yana Bukler, Between the River and the Sea moves beyond political binaries to reveal the human complexity behind a dispute that has spanned generations.