Synopsis
Naomi, Aged forty-one, born in England. Her mother, a Holocaust survivor from Germany. Her father, a non-Jewish Englishman. Married to an Ethiopian Jew, a policeman, the couple has 4 sons. She writes children’s books and to help the family’s livelihood she works in the Absorption Ministry. Resides at Ma’aleh Adumim. “I am an Israeli, an identity which I adopted out of choice, and for which I sacrificed a great deal. All my life I felt a commitment to my Jewish identity, which is a heritage from my mother’s parents who perished in the holocaust, an identity that came through in my mother’s writings. All her life she lived under the shadow of the “sole survivor”. My mother found her Jewish Identity only after she had given it up and only after she bore four children to an English man, an atheist and humanist. I joined my mother like a thread binding the generations and this same thread connects me to this country.”
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