Everything you need to understand or teach The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick.
"The Shawl" was first published in the New Yorker in 1980. The story was reprinted in Cynthia Ozick's 1989 collection, The Shawl, where it was paired with "Rosa," a story that picks up the tale of the same characters some thirty years later. "The Shawl" is about the Holocaust, the systematic slaughter of some six million Jews, as well as at least that many gypsies, homosexuals, and other "undesirables" by the Nazis during World War...