Posts Tagged: Cynthia Ozick
‘Goodbye to Hanukkah’ New York Times Author Distances Herself as Criticism Mounts
The author of the “Goodbye to Hanukkah” New York Times article is backing away from it as criticism mounts. Sarah Prager provoked ire with her published...
The New York Times Calls Jewish Novelist Cynthia Ozick a ‘Crusader’
In an otherwise mostly respectful piece about the Jewish novelist and essayist Cynthia Ozick, the New York Times makes a cringe-worthy word choice. “Cynthia Ozick’s Long...
Zionism 101: Far Better Than the Courses at Vassar or Stanford, and About $60,000 Cheaper
To those of us old enough to remember the first Israel Independence Day, in 1948, it stands as one of the few redeeming events in...
The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco (REVIEW)
The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco, trans. Richard Dixon (HoughtonMifflinHarcourt, 2011). The center of this novel is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a...