That’s how author Lauren Weisberger describes the Jewish trajectory of the Devil herself in her famous new book, The Devil Wears Prada. The main character, Andrea, would-be-writer and unexpected assistant to the most difficult woman in New York, has a Jewish background much like Weisberger’s. More juicily, the character referenced by the book’s title, editor-from-hell Miranda Priestly, was once upon a time Known as Miranda Princhek, native of London’s onetime Jewish East End, and daughter of a penniless scholar of Jewish texts. Many critics were quick to notice the struggle with assimilation as adding an additional layer of thoughtfulness and meaning to the book; unfortunately, in what one critic described as a need to play things “Hollywood safe,” all Jewish undertones have been excised from the movie version.