The Embarkation

What makes a Jew a Jew? This question is often heard among young American Jews who have not been brought up to understand the spiritual values which the Jews gave to the world. "The Embarkation," Murray Gitlin's emotional novel, first published in 1950, gives to a certain extent a psychological answer to this question. The central figure in the novel, Martin Tester, is an American soldier who is forced to become a deserter due to the anti-Semitism of his commander. He wanders around for two year