Toward a New Yiddish

Cynthia Ozick

1970

[ . . . ] It seems to me we are ready to rethink ourselves in America now; to preserve ourselves by a new culture-making.

Now you will say that this is a vast and stupid contradiction following all I have noted so far about the historic hopelessness of Diaspora culture. I have already remarked that “there are no major works of Jewish imaginative…

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Cynthia Ozick

b. 1928
Cynthia Ozick, born in New York, is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and critic. Best known for her fiction, which is steeped in Jewish culture, she is a major figure in contemporary American letters. Among her literary honors, Ozick has received three O. Henry Awards, the National Jewish Book Award, and, in 2008, the PEN/Malamud and PEN/Nabokov awards for lifetime achievement.

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