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- Raised in an observant Catholic family (her father was a convert from Judaism), Gordon attended Barnard College, New York City (B.A., 1971), and Syracuse (New York) University (M.A., 1973).
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He was born into a Jewish family in Vilna, Lithuania and named Israel. They immigrated to Lorain, Ohio when he was six. [5] . He had converted to Catholicism as a young man in 1937, before his marriage to her mother. [1] After his conversion, her father published some anti-Semitic and right-wing journalism.
Mary Gordon, Millicent C. McIntosh Professor in English and Writing, joined the faculty of Barnard in 1988. Professor Gordon is the author of seven bestselling novels.
Born December 8, 1949, in Far Rockaway, Long Island, NY; daughter of David (a writer and publisher) and Anna (a legal secretary) Gordon; married James Brian (an English professor), 1974 (marriage ended); married Arthur Cash (a professor of English), December 1, 1979; children: (second marriage) Anna Gordon, David Dess Gordon.
The life, character, behavior, and ideas of Simone Weil shed light on the painful contradictions lived out by a kind of Jewish intellectual. Ordinary, or garden variety self hatred was sometimes masked by a assertions of cultural, rather than ethnic, tribal, religious self identification.
Mary Gordon (born December 8, 1949, Long Island, New York, U.S.) is an American writer whose novels and short fiction deal with growing up as a Roman Catholic and with the nature of goodness and piety as expressed within that tradition.
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Mary Gordon is the author of novels, memoirs, and literary critcism. At the time of this interview, she she had just published her first novel, Final Payments, about a thirty-year-old woman who, up until her father’s death, had been his caretaker for over twenty years (as is customary of an Irish-Catholic family).
Nov 12, 2006 · Gordon goes on to describe her inconsolable grief for her adored and adoring father and the shocks she later received on discovering that this devout, scholarly Catholic had been born Jewish, had...
