February 1989 Issue [Readings] Why I won’t go to Germany Adjust Share by Cynthia Ozick, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Germany Jews Jews, American Travel More from Cynthia Ozick 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 The moral necessity of metaphor Rooting history in a figure of speech Adjust Share