Cynthia Ozick

In this lecture, Professor Wisse analyzes the massive intellectual output of Cynthia Ozick. As an essayist, critic, novelist, and short story writer, Ozick was a literary maximalist with a huge imagination. She exposed problems that Jews didn’t realize they had, powerfully made the case for Israel and America, and persuasively condemned cultural envy, diaspora flattery, and the many trendy ideas that are antithetical to traditional Judaism.