(If you could require the president to read one book, what … - Cynthia Ozick

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(If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be?) “History of the Jews,” by Heinrich Graetz…it taught me that a writer lacking history, however gifted, is an empty sack.

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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is a Jewish American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.

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