CRITICISM

Friedman, Lawrence S. “Bloodshed and Three Novellas and The Shawl: A Story and a Novella.” In Understanding Cynthia Ozick, pp. 88-121. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

Investigates Holocaust imagery and representations of Holocaust survivors.

Rosen, Alan. “The Specter of Eloquence: Reading the Survivor's Voice.” In Celebrating Elie Wiesel: Stories, Essays, Reflections, edited by Alan Rosen, pp. 41-56. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.

Rosen compares the use of early and late testimony in Art Spiegelman's Maus to Ozick's Rosa.

Yalom, Marilyn. “Cynthia Ozick's Paradoxical Wisdom.” In People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity, edited by Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, pp. 427-38. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Yalom examines the complexity of Ozick's representation of the Jewish experience.

Additional coverage of Ozick's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers Supplement, Vol. 5; Bestsellers, 1990:1; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-20R; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 23, 58; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 3, 7, 28, 62, 155; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Contemporary Popular Writers; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 28, 152; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1982; DISCovering Authors Modules: Novelists and Popular Fiction and Genre Authors; DISCovering Authors 3.0;Exploring Short Stories; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Short Stories for Students, Vols. 3, 12; and Short Story Criticism, Vol. 15.