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Originally published 1971 Genre Speculative fiction | 3.8/5 Goodreads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Edward Lewis Wallant Award, National Jewish Book Award for Fiction Nominations National Book Award for Fiction Similar Works by Cynthia Ozick, Edward Lewis Wallant Award winners, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971) is the second book and first collection of stories published by American author Cynthia Ozick. "The Pagan Rabbi" and "Envy, or Yittish in America" along with an interview of the author were later collected as an audio book in 1989 read by Ron Rifkin and Mitchell Greenberg.
Contents
The Stories
Synopsis
Approximately 9,000 words, also published in Cynthia Ozick Collected Stories. The story is about a rabbi who had just committed suicide by hanging himself in a public park. He is remembered by his widow for having recently discovered a passion for nature and his widow felt that he left his beliefs of Judaism for Paganism.
Approximately 15,000 words, also published in Cynthia Ozick Collected Stories. The story is about an American Yiddish poet who is bitterly jealous of his more-successful contemporary. The main character also has a personal vendetta against televangelists who are attempting to convert Jews to Christianity.
Approximately 7,000 words, also published in Cynthia Ozick Collected Stories. About a retired Imperial German fighter pilot, whose son is a well-recognized artist. One of the artist's friends finds that her purse has been stolen, and they try to figure out who stole it. The woman who lost her purse accuses the father of the artist, because he was in the Imperial German army.
Approximately 3,000 words, also published in Cynthia Ozick Collected Stories. The story is basically an argument between a bubble college girl and her professor who are argue about how traffic lights are the icons of American cities.