Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rabbi Joshua Berkowitz Stamford, Conn...
...technically challenging first novel about personal and political betrayal. If the clang of metaphorical boiler plate rang in the reader's ear, so did the voice of new talent. Trust remains Ozick's only published novel. Her reputation rests mainly on collections of short fiction: The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories and Bloodshed and Three Novellas. In these works, the author's philosophical and social overview narrowed and intensified. She could be outrageously satirical about current styles of New York life, but her more serious concerns centered on Jewish tradition and culture...
Much of Levitation presents Ozick in the role of a woman wonder-rabbi spreading paradox and fantasy. She tries too hard. Fantasy requires a softer touch and more control than are found in these stories. Some of Ozick's figurative language is spell-breaking. The phrase "suckled the Nazi boot" seems to have dropped from a punk rock lyric. A "transient mirage" that teases the "medulla oblongata" is not only overwrought but inappropriate for this part of the brain...
...think that she had a great deal of vitality and was a person of social conscience," Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel, who had known Gordon since she was a child, said. "She was a very hopeful person," he added...
...some soul searching." When reminded by a reporter on the way out that he had once said that Reagan could sell ice to Eskimos, he joked: "I'm thinking about putting a heavier coat on." As Zorinsky sat in his office, he received a phone call from a rabbi in his home state. Outside a sound truck was blaring: "Vote American. Vote for AWACS." In the end, he went with the President...