The Pagan Rabbi

Cynthia Ozick

1966

When I heard that Isaac Kornfeld, a man of piety and brains, had hanged himself in the public park, I put a token in the subway stile and journeyed out to see the tree. [ . . . ]

[ . . . ] On the day of his funeral the president of his college was criticized for having commented that although a suicide could not be buried in consecrated earth…

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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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