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A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Cynthia Ozick's Shawl"
A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Cynthia Ozick's Shawl"
A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Cynthia Ozick's Shawl"
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A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Cynthia Ozick's Shawl"

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A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Cynthia Ozick's Shawl," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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Release dateJul 6, 2016
ISBN9781535821353
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    A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Cynthia Ozick's Shawl" - Gale

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    The Shawl

    Cynthia Ozick

    1980

    Introduction

    The Shawl was first published in the New Yorker in 1980. The story was reprinted in Cynthia Ozick’s 1989 collection, The Shawl, where it was paired with Rosa, a story that picks up the tale of the same characters some thirty years later. The Shawl is about the Holocaust, the systematic slaughter of some six million Jews, as well as at least that many gypsies, homosexuals, and other undesirables by the Nazis during World War II. Although Ozick was born and raised in the United States, she is well-versed in Jewish history and tradition, and her story quickly became one of the best-known stories about the Nazi death camps. The Shawl is particularly admired for its compactness. In only two thousand words, Ozick manages to evoke the horror of the Holocaust for her readers. The story touches on many themes, including survival, motherhood, nurture, prejudice, and betrayal.

    Author Biography

    Cynthia Ozick was born on April 17, 1928, in New York City. Her parents, William and Celia (Regelson) Ozick, had come to the United States from northwestern Russia. In addition to his work as a pharmacist, William was a Jewish scholar. Ozick considers herself a feminist and claims she became one at the age of five, when her grandmother took her to heder, a school for the study of Hebrew and the Torah. The rabbi told Ozick’s grandmother to take her home, since a girl doesn’t have to study. Ozick returned the next day and quickly established herself as a good

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