In the Footsteps of a Book – A Walk Through the Jerusalem Neighborhood of Musrara

The actual House of Windows as far as we could tell

Have you ever traveled in the footsteps of a book?

Visited the location where a character lived? Tried to retrace his or her steps? I’ve done this several times, such as on a trip to London when my kids and I visited where Hercule Poirot “lived” in the BBC series we love.

I got to do this again in Jerusalem a month ago, when my friend Rivka Levy took my husband and me around the neighborhood of Musrara, where she herself lived until recently...