Cynthia Ozick
In her latest short fiction, the great American Jewish writer retells the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Italian boy taken by the pope in 1858 and raised to become a priest.
“The Story of My Family.”
The legendary author joins us to talk about her new short story, about a search for the reason why a 13th-century Jewish man became a Catholic priest.
A new story tells of a young scholar’s investigation into a notorious apostate.
The story of a ḥasidic pilgrimage site in a small town in New York.
A talmudic legend of a wicked emperor’s demise, set to verse.
“I hate no race.”
At ninety-two, the author remains at the height of her powers.
A new biography is a “narrative masterwork.”
The blessing and the curse.
Finding the thread that connects Franz Kafka, Amos Oz, Saul Bellow, and Cynthia Ozick.
Only the bookish can tell the vengeful mob which books to burn.
Jewish literature, like Jews, will either become more overtly Jewish, or cease to be Jewish at all.
Revisiting Cynthia Ozick’s “Innovation and Redemption.”