Judith Civan studied English literature at Radcliffe and Columbia, then worked as a reporter and feature writer at the Newark Star-Ledger and was a columnist 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 the novels "Leaving Egypt" and "Choosing".
