An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948 - Paperbackby Sonja Mejcher Atassi (Author) In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and intellectuals among them Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sally Kassab, Walid Khalidi, and Rasha Salam, some of whom would go on to become acclaimed authors, scholars, and critics came together across religious lines in a