A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Pagan Rabbi"
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410354962
The Pagan Rabbi, and Other Stories
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Jewish fiction
ISBN : 9780815603511
Book Description
Ozick is a kind of narrative hypnotist. Her range is extraordinary; there is seemingly nothing she can't do. Her stories contain passages of intense lyricism and brilliant, hilarious, uncontainable inventiveness.
A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Cynthia Ozick's Shawl"
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410343553
Book Description
A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Cynthia Ozick's Shawl," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Spinoza of Market Street"
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410359026
Book Description
A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Spinoza of Market Street," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?
Author : Adam Kirsch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300245130
Book Description
From one of today’s keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the two Adam Kirsch is one of today’s finest literary critics. This collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion, and the intersections between them, with a particular focus on Jewish literature. He explores the definition of Jewish literature, the relationship between poetry and politics, and the future of literary reputation in the age of the internet. Several essays look at the way Jewish writers such as Stefan Zweig and Isaac Deutscher, who coined the phrase “the non-Jewish Jew,” have dealt with politics. Kirsch also examines questions of spirituality and morality in the writings of contemporary poets, including Christian Wiman, Kay Ryan, and Seamus Heaney. He closes by asking why so many American Jewish writers have resisted that category, inviting us to consider “Is there such a thing as Jewish literature?”
Understanding Cynthia Ozick
Author : Lawrence S. Friedman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780872497726
Book Description
Discussing Jewish themes in Ozick's writings, examines the literary evocation of the Holocaust in the novels "Trust" (1966), "The Messiah of Stockholm" (1987), and in the story "The Shawl" (1989).
Antiquities
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593318838
Book Description
From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.
Reader's Guide to Judaism
Author : Michael Terry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135941505
Book Description
The Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.
Foreign Bodies
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547504551
Book Description
In her sixth novel, Cynthia Ozick retells the story of Henry James’s The Ambassadors as a photographic negative, retaining the plot but reversing the meaning. Foreign Bodies transforms Henry James’s prototype into a brilliant, utterly original, new American classic. At the core of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold during the many years since her brief marriage. When her estranged, difficult brother asks her to leave New York for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows, she becomes entangled in the lives of her brother’s family and even, after so long, her ex-husband. Every one of them is irrevocably changed by the events of just a few months in that fateful year. Traveling from New York to Paris to Hollywood, aiding and abetting her nephew and niece while waging a war of letters with her brother, facing her ex-husband and finally shaking off his lingering sneers from decades past, Bea Nightingale is a newly liberated divorcee who inadvertently wreaks havoc on the very people she tries to help.
The Puttermesser Papers
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1998-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679777393
Book Description
With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review
