Cynthia Ozick is a Jewish American short story writer, a novelist, and essayist whose central concerns have been the depiction of the lives of Jewish Americans. Her choice of serious subject matter, particularly the Holocaust and its impact on Jewish American life is colored with a playful prose which has little bits of amusement steeped in misery of its own. Her candid use of sentences and words to describe savage situations sometimes leaves the reader both stunned and wondering. Much of her work revolves around the dire implications of the Holocaust and its aftermath. For Ozick, the career of writing became a medium of working through the trauma of humiliation and discrimination of her school years and of the American society in general. This paper attempts to analyse her treatment of the Holocaust through her short fiction as also her narration of the contemporary conditions of the Jewish Americans.ynthia Ozick is a Jewish American short story writer, a novelist, and essayist whose central concerns have been the depiction of the lives of Jewish Americans. Her choice of serious subject matter, particularly the Holocaust and its impact on Jewish American life is colored with a playful prose which has little bits of amusement steeped in misery of its own. Her candid use of sentences and words to describe savage situations sometimes leaves the reader both stunned and wondering. Much of her work revolves around the dire implications of the Holocaust and its aftermath. For Ozick, the career of writing became a medium of working through the trauma of humiliation and discrimination of her school years and of the American society in general. This paper attempts to analyse her treatment of the Holocaust through her short fiction as also her narration of the contemporary conditions of the Jewish Americans
.Keywords: aftermath, contemporary, depiction, Holocaust, Jewish, trauma.
