Review
Antisemitic Good Old Boys
Lilith, Vol.46(2), pp.41-41
01 Jul 2021
Abstract
Antisemitic Good Old Boys In Antiquities (Penguin Random House, $21.), the hauntingly weird new novella by Cynthia Ozick, the title is a clever play on words. Petrie can't quite figure out why Ben-Zion Elephantin abandoned him and their regular games of chess; all he knows is that this friendship made him an outcast and primed him for pranks and bullying at Temple Academy, both as a child and now, in 1949, living with those same good old (bad) boys who still delight in torturing him. Petrie was more subtle, but in some ways his breathtakingly casual objection to Roosevelt's putting Americans at risk to save Jews, and his acceptance that "there is always a kernel of truth in these commonplace disparagements" of Jews makes his attitude even more insidious.
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Details
- Title
- Antisemitic Good Old Boys
- Creators
- Sharrona Pearl
- Publication Details
- Lilith, Vol.46(2), pp.41-41
- Publisher
- Lilith; New York
- Resource Type
- Review
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Administration; Africana Studies
- Identifiers
- 991021863493304721