September 1985 Issue [Article] The first day of school Download PDF Adjust Share by Cynthia Ozick, Subscribe or log in to continue reading. Tags 20th century Biography College freshmen Cynthia Ozick New York New York (State) New York University Students Washington Square (New York, N.Y.) More from Cynthia Ozick The Conversion of the Jews They lived in narrow streets and lanes obscure, Ghetto and Judenstrass, in murk and mire; Taught in the school of patience to endure The life of anguish and the death… The Bloodline of the Alkanas Cyrus Alkana was my father, and if you can recognize this name, you belong to an inconspicuous substratum of humanity — a coterie, if such things can still be said… Literary entrails The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin Adjust Share