Comments on: Muriel Spark dies at 88 http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/16/muriel-spark-dies-at-88/ The blog of the mystery writer, screenwriter and CEO of Pajamas Media Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:59:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Yehudit http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/16/muriel-spark-dies-at-88/#comment-77131 Yehudit Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:12:56 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/16/muriel-spark-dies-at-88/#comment-77131 I think you are only born Jewish if your mother is, if your grandmother is but not your mother, I think you would have to convert. I always sensed that Spark was ambivalent about her Jewish heritage (much like Madeleine Albright when she found out). But I thought she was fair about Israel and its relation to the surrounding Arab states in "The Mandelbaum Gate." She wasn't kind to any of the parties, which is her style. I think you are only born Jewish if your mother is, if your grandmother is but not your mother, I think you would have to convert.

I always sensed that Spark was ambivalent about her Jewish heritage (much like Madeleine Albright when she found out). But I thought she was fair about Israel and its relation to the surrounding Arab states in “The Mandelbaum Gate.” She wasn’t kind to any of the parties, which is her style.

]]> By: Yehudit http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/16/muriel-spark-dies-at-88/#comment-77130 Yehudit Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:00:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/16/muriel-spark-dies-at-88/#comment-77130 I was first introduced to Muriel Spark by reading the "Mandelbaum Gate," when I bought a used paperback from a street vendor. I have since read almost everything she wrote. I think my favorites are "The Girls of Slender Means" and "A Far Cry From Kensington." I was first introduced to Muriel Spark by reading the “Mandelbaum Gate,” when I bought a used paperback from a street vendor. I have since read almost everything she wrote. I think my favorites are “The Girls of Slender Means” and “A Far Cry From Kensington.”

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