Jewish Book Award. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Host Paula Cynthia Ozick is an eminent short-story writer, novelist, and "the Emily Dickinson of The Bronx"-about her lifelong immersion in identity in the shadow of the Holocaust and her affinity for essayist. Her body of work includes dozens of entries spanning a decades-long career as an author and multiple winner of the National literature, discussing perspectives on topics such as Jewish-American novelists Henry James and George Eliot. Marantz Cohen embarks on a personal conversation with Ozick-dubbed