Books by Cynthia Ozick
“I have admired Cynthia Ozick since I was young. My father introduced me to her work in the pages of The New Yorker while I was in high school. I immediately responded to her intensity and delicacy, the layered beauty of her descriptions and her extraordinary vision of Jewish history and anxiety. I was fascinated by its richness sentence by sentence, by her use of metaphor, by her learning and the way that she embraced and celebrated Jewish texts and literary texts, the way she interwove strands of tradition.” Read more...
Allegra Goodman recommends the best Jewish Fiction
Allegra Goodman, Novelist
Interviews where books by Cynthia Ozick were recommended
Allegra Goodman recommends the best Jewish Fiction
Jewish literature doesn’t have to be written by Jews, says the novelist, but it does have to speak to the Jewish experience. She tells us about the Jewish writing, from Chaim Potok to George Eliot, that means the most to her.
