Cynthia Ozick, The Civil Discourse (Season 5)

Cynthia Ozick is an eminent short-story writer, novelist, and essayist. Her body of work includes dozens of entries spanning a decades-long career as an author and multiple winner of the National Jewish Book Award. In this episode of ‪@TheCivilDiscourse‬, Host Paula Marantz Cohen embarks on a personal conversation with Ozick—dubbed “the Emily Dickinson of The Bronx”—about her lifelong immersion in literature, discussing perspectives on topics such as Jewish-American identity in the shadow of the Holocaust and her affinity for novelists Henry James and George Eliot.

Recorded January 25, 2024 through virtual conferencing (Philadelphia, PA, USA). This episode is a production of Marketing & Media, Pennoni Honors College, ‪@DrexelUniv‬.

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