POLAND'S NEW FASCINATION WITH JEWS

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: July 17, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

KRAKOW, Poland

IN A 1973 ESSAY, Cynthia Ozick speculated on how Jews would be remembered if, like every other nation of antiquity, they had vanished long ago. As people speak today of "the glory that was Greece," she mused, the achievements of the long-gone Jews would be celebrated as "the genius that was Israel."

"How if there were no Jews the world would be enraptured!" she wrote. "The people that stood at Sinai to receive a desert vision of purity, the people of scholarly shepherds, humane prophetic geniuses, dreams of justice and mercy" how admired they would be. In a world without ...

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