Choosing

About the Book

Kenneth, half Jewish, grows up not knowing who he really is. Reporting on the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, he learns about the Nazi Holocaust and begins to find his identity as a Jew. Finding himself also means freeing himself from a failed marriage. On the eve of the Six Days War he meets Maggie, another journalist, in the Greek Isles and she too has an identity problem. She follows him to Israel to cover the war with him and they fall in love in Israel as the war begins. Against the background of struggling Arab and Israeli armies, they work out who they are and what their future will be.

About the Author

Judith Civan studied English literature at Radcliffe and went on to earn an M.A. in the same field at Columbia. She worked as a reporter and feature writer at the Newark Star-Ledger, and later wrote a column on personalities in Jewish history for the New York and Washington Jewish Weeks. She is the author of "Abraham's Knife: the Mythology of the Deicide in Antisemitism", a literary and historical study of the origins and ramifications of the deicide accusation, and "Leaving Egypt", a novel.