A Jewish Odyssey

About the Book

Saralea Zohar Aaron’s remarkable, richly detailed memoir is a story of growing up in a struggling immigrant Jewish family during the 1940’s and 1950’s in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a small city north of Boston; of marrying and giving birth to her daughter in Israel and serving as a triage nurse during some of the bloodiest battles of the Yom Kippur War; of traveling in India; of organizing aid for Native Americans and Ethiopian Jewry after her return to the United States. Her reflections on the Jewish-Palestinian dilemma, and on Jewish-Christian issues, are both candid and insightful.

About the Author

Saralea Zohar grew up in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and graduated with distinction from the Whidden School of Nursing in 1965. During her first trip to Israel (1968-69) she obtained international reciprocity as a State Registered Nurse. At the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 she returned to Israel and served as a triage nurse in some of the war’s bloodiest battles. In 1974, Saralea married Simon Aaron in Jerusalem, and in 1975 gave birth to their daughter, Ruth. After traveling in India she returned to the U.S., where she has been active in aiding Native Americans and Ethiopian Jewry.