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 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