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Acknowledgments Earlier versions of some of the material in this book were originally published in the following journals and essay collections: “Framing Questions: Cynthia Ozick’s ‘Shots’ ” (Literature and Theology 16,1; Oxford University Press, March 2002, pp. 51–64); “Cynthia Ozick’s Golem: A Messianic Double” (Literature and Theology 19,1; Oxford University Press, March 2005, pp. 47–59); “The Resurrection of the Phantom Father in Cynthia Ozick’s The Messiah of Stockholm (Literary Canons and Religious Identity, Ashgate Publishing, 2004); “The Synthesis of the Mind and Body in Cynthia Ozick’s The Cannibal Galaxy” (Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 4,1, Winter 2006); “Lilith and Hester Lilt: The Life of the Autonomous Mother”(Jewish Women’s Writing of the 1990s and Beyond in Great Britain and the United States, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004); “The Arboreal Metonym: Trees as Seers in Cynthia Ozick’s Trust”(Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 4,1, Fall 2002, pp. 73–85); “Crossing the Abyss: Language and the Holocaust in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl” (Studies in American Jewish Literature 24, 2005, pp. 42–59). I want to thank the editors of these publications. Their decisions to publish my work encouraged me in my efforts to bring this book to fruition. I would also like to thank Professor Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan and Professor Menachem Kellner for their erudition and attention. And I’m always grateful to Menachem for his mentshlichkeit. I acknowledge my deep debt to all my teachers: in particular Mrs. Shendles at P.S. 187 in New York who started me on my path to reading and loving literature, and especially to Jane Lazarre who quickly became a mother/sister guide after we met at CCNY. You are role models of how it is possible to impart knowledge and love simultaneously, a truly great lesson. ix ...