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Letters from a Vanished Jewish Past
The Jane Austen of Hlusk.
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick is an American writer whose essays, short stories, and novels have won countless awards. Her latest novel, Antiquities, was published in 2021.
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Philip Roth’s Disappearing Yiddish-Speaking Grandmother
One great Jewish novelist considers the legacy of another.
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Podcast: Cynthia Ozick on the Story of a Jew Who Becomes a Tormentor of Other Jews
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Cynthia OzickCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Cynthia Ozick Imagines the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara through a Relative’s Eyes
“The Story of My Family.”
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The Best Books of 2023, Part I
By Elliott Abrams, Cynthia Ozick, Neil Rogachevsky, Ruth R. WisseCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Podcast: Cynthia Ozick on “The Conversion of the Jews”
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Cynthia OzickCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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“The Conversion of the Jews”
A new story tells of a young scholar’s investigation into a notorious apostate.
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Titus and the Gnat
A talmudic legend of a wicked emperor’s demise, set to verse.
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A Great American Jewish Writer Examines Her Youthful Correspondence with a German Soldier Who Fought for Hitler
“I hate no race.”
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Podcast: Cynthia Ozick on Her New Novel “Antiquities”
By Cynthia Ozick, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Insisting He Wasn’t a Jewish Writer, Philip Roth Couldn’t Stop Writing about the Jews, or Caring What They Thought of Him
A new biography is a “narrative masterwork.”
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Anti-Semitism Is a Disease of the Intellectuals
Only the bookish can tell the vengeful mob which books to burn.
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Mark Podwal: A Unique Artist Preoccupied with Jewish History
A genius for historical contradictions.
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Saul Bellow: “Jewish Writer in America”
On the novelist’s letters and a “repulsive category.”
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Terrorism Is a Moral Choice, Not an Expression of “Spiritual Misery”
Acts of murder are not chapters in a novel to be parsed.
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There Were No Love Stories in Auschwitz. Is It Acceptable for a Novelist to Invent One?
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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How Kafka Lived
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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An American Jewish Natural
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.