Evergreen

A writer who used the Jew as a metaphor for humankind.

Jewish socialism influenced Grace Paley's life and literature.

The most successful Jewish American writer may be the most ambivalent as well.

At mid 20th century, Jewish writers connected with American readers by writing about alienation.

The founder and editor of the Forward wrote one of the most important American immigrant novels ever.

In America, a female sweatshop worker from a Polish shtetl could become a renowned writer and Hollywood commodity.

Using a medium often associated with lightheartedness to portray the horrors of the Holocaust.

Ozick's version of Jewish literature is more than Yiddish words and slapstick.

Jewish views on organ donation are overridden by a single halakhic (legal) concept: pikuach nefesh—the Jewish obligation to save lives.

Before God calls on Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery, Moses develops his leadership skills and his ability to see beyond narrow struggles and his role as liberator.