Word: ozick
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...Owns Anne Frank?" asked novelist Cynthia Ozick, in an article that holds up the diary as a sacred text and condemns any tamperers. The passions the book ignites suggest that everyone owns Anne Frank, that she has risen above the Holocaust, Judaism, girlhood and even goodness and become a totemic figure of the modern world--the moral individual mind beset by the machinery of destruction, insisting on the right to live and question and hope for the future of human beings...
...National Book Foundation and the Boston Public Library Present: A Conversation with National Book Award finalist Cynthia Ozick, author of The Puttermesser Papers, with Christopher Lydon, host of "The Connection." Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square. 536-5400. 6 p.m. FREE...
...unhappy husband permission to visit a prostitute. Yet Englander's apostasy is always affectionate and imaginative. The Gilgul of Park Avenue, for example, offers up a Wall Street Wasp who inexplicably discovers that he has a Jewish soul. The domestic and professional ramifications read like a collaboration between Cynthia Ozick and Mel Brooks...
...Sunflower, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal asked whether it would be proper for a Jew in a slave-labor camp to grant forgiveness to a dying SS man begging absolution for earlier murders. As part of a symposium that is incorporated into the book, the writer Cynthia Ozick said absolutely not: "Forgiveness is pitiless. It forgets the victim. It blurs over suffering and death. It drowns the past. The face of forgiveness is mild, but how stony to the slaughtered...Let the SS man...go to hell." How-to books, therapy and interventions may be useful in dealing with an unfaithful...
Will the play's detractors be satisfied? Ozick hasn't seen this version but is hopeful that the changes will remedy a play that has been "deeply damaging to the world's psyche" because it found rays of light in a historical event that offers "only darkness." Melnick, who has seen it, finds the new version better but still historically flawed. (The staging of the Franks' arrest, he points out, was more factually accurate in the old version.) The rest of us can simply appreciate that a Broadway drama still has the power to move us, and to cause...