Cynthia Ozick

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Elie Wiesel asked to wait a few years until there was no more witnesses to find fault with her representation of the Shoah. The Shoah is also known as Holocaust Day. This is the remembrance of all the Jews that were murdered during the Holocaust. The reason for that was because falsified the event and mocked a sacred text. At all cost, the Shoal had to be secured. was upset and hurt, not because she was reprimanded for making a minor historical error, but because she was treated as a stranger. was an American Jew, not just an American. She was treated as if she was just an American. She was also treated as if she was an American writer that had no clue what the Holocaust was really about. did know about the Holocaust, she learned about the Holocaust just by reading about it. wrote a letter to Elie Wiesel stating that just because she was not a witness of the Holocaust and part American, she should not be excluded from being part Jewish. ...

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