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	Bernard Malamud - MSN Encarta
		Born in Brooklyn, New York, Malamud was educated at the City College of New York and Columbia University.
		Malamud's first novel, The Natural (1952), reworks the legend of the Holy Grail as an allegorical fantasy about a star baseball player (see Allegory).
		The Fixer (1966), for which Malamud received the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is a poignant novel (based on a true story) of the suffering of a Russian Jewish workman sentenced unjustly to prison; it demonstrates how human beings can come through suffering to an affirmative view of life.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578920/Bernard_Malamud.html (248 words)

	Bernard Malamud Papers (Library of Congress)
		The notes are of two types: the first are Malamud's research notes written during the conception and execution of his work, while the second explain the order in which the drafts and revisions of his literary manuscripts were prepared.
		Files containing Malamud's correspondence with his editors, publishers, and agents, in particular the publishing firm of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and his literary agents, Russell and Volkening, are located in the Subject File.
		Part II of the papers of Bernard Malamud covers the period from the 1930s to 1989, with the bulk of the material dated from the 1950s to Malamud's death in 1986.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/malamud.html (1756 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Bernard Malamud
		Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn on April 26, 1914, to an immigrant grocer, Max Malamud, and his theatrically talented wife, Bertha Fidelman, who helped him in the store.
		Alfred Kazin recalls Malamud's "memories of his father's keeping a failing grocery in a hostile gentile neighborhood, his mother's death when he was fifteen, a younger brother's descent into schizophrenia," and notes the aloneness of Malamud's characters with no connection to the Jewish socialism of the period or to Jewish synagogal faith.
		Bernard Malamud died on March 18, 1986, and is buried on a grassy slope in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /culture/literature/Overview_Jewish_American_Literature/Into_The_Literary_Mainstream/Literature_Malamud_Norton.htm (910 words)

	Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
		In interviews, Malamud credits his hardworking "Yiddish" parents and their Eastern European immigrant generation with providing models of morality, but he emphasizes that humanity is his subject, that he uses Jews to communicate the universal just as William Faulkner created a universe from a corner of the American South.
		Despite his universality or perhaps because of it, Malamud resembles a number of American Jewish authors, including earlier twentieth century writers, such as Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, and Henry Roth, as well as post-World War II authors such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bellow, and Philip Roth.
		With the establishment of the Bernard Malamud Society and the publication of a newsletter, Malamudian scholars are kept apprised of research and conferences.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/malamud.html (1014 words)

	Bernard Malamud's Daughter Finally Tells His Secrets - New York Times
		Janna Malamud Smith with her father, the writer Bernard Malamud, and her son Peter in Massachusetts in 1984.
		Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, Malamud, who died in 1986, was part of a triumvirate of American Jewish writers who dominated the national literature in the 50's and 60's.
		Smith describes Malamud as affectionate toward her and her brother, Paul, living a quiet, small-town life in Corvallis, Ore., where he taught from 1949 to 1961 at what was then Oregon State College.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/09/books/09mala.html?ex=1299560400&en=2fdd2cd5d5ca5765&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (793 words)

	The toils of Bernard Malamud - TLS Highlights - Times Online
		Malamud was at his strongest in his short fiction, especially the stories collected in The Magic Barrel (1958), and in his second novel, The Assistant (1957), as terse and gripping as any of the stories.
		Malamud’s daughter, Janna Malamud Smith, a psychiatric social worker, was particularly close to her father – almost incestuously, she now thinks – and even wrote a book defending this insistence on privacy.
		Malamud took the public posture of a stern moralist, almost a Jewish sage, yet his work has a mischievous streak in line with Lambert Strether’s message at the end of The Ambassadors: “Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to”.
	tls.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,25336-2174148,00.html (1940 words)

	The National Book Foundation
		I marvel at Malamud's ability to change voices from one story to the next: to sound like a "schlemiel" Jewish immigrant still feeling his way through the irrationalities of the American language; and then to fall just as effortlessly into the diction of a young Italian man tending the neighborhood grocery store.
		The son of a "Yiddish" grocer, Max, and his wife, Bertha, Bernard Malamud was born on April 26, 1914, in Brooklyn.
		Bernard graduated from Erasmus Hall High School, went on to City College, and then got a $4.50 per day job as a teacher in training, returning to Erasmus to teach while earning a master's degree in English at Columbia University.
	www.nationalbook.org /dirletter_bmalamud.html (998 words)

	Bernard Malamud Papers - Special Collections - Oregon State University
		Malamud himself was not fired for being a troublemaker, but he could have had a model who was.
		Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), a major American novelist and short story writer, taught at Oregon State University from 1949-1961.
		The Malamud Papers include an assortment of personal correspondence relating to Malamud's tenure as professor and writer at Oregon State University.
	osulibrary.oregonstate.edu /specialcollections/coll/malamud/index.html (320 words)

	National Yiddish Book Center - The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
		They are Jews, Malamud seems to argue, in their suffering and in their nobility, or in their goodness, despite that suffering.
		Bernard Malamud: I can’t work up any great enthusiasm for the statement but what I imagine it means is that my characters often outwit their predictable fates.
		Malamud: I’m sensitive to Jews and Jewish life but so far as literature is concerned I can’t say that I approve of your thesis: that one has to be of a certain nationality or color to "fully grasp" the "nuances and vibrations" of its fiction.
	www.yiddishbookcenter.org /story.php?n=10058 (2644 words)

	Bernard Malamud Biography
		Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) is considered one of the most prominent figures in Jewish-American literature, a movement that originated in the 1930s and is known for its tragicomic elements.
		Malamud's stories and novels, in which reality and fantasy are frequently interlaced, have been compared to parables, myths, and allegories and often illustrate the importance of moral obligation.
		Malamud's characters, while often awkward and isolated from society, evoke both pity and humor through their attempts at survival and salvation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/bernard-malamud (187 words)

	Featured Author - Bernard Malamud - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times
		Malamud's magic barrel of schnorrers and schleppers is re-tapped in his collected stories.
		Malamud's best book in years is about two men, one fl and one Jewish.
		Malamud's first novel is an allegory disguised as a baseball yarn.
	www.nytimes.com /ref/books/author-malamud.html (391 words)

	Bernard Malamud Papers
		This collection of correspondence and papers of American novelist and short story writer Bernard Malamud was received through his wife Ann de Chira Malamud, both as a purchase and a gift.
		Malamud's folder titles were transferred to new folders and his original folders were retained.
		Although smaller in size than a previous gift of Bernard Malamud papers given to the Ransom Center in 1998 by his wife, Ann Malamud, this accretion reflects her interaction with publishers, literary groups, and academic institutions after Malamud's death.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/malamud.html (1162 words)

	Bernard Malamud’s Second Chance
		Malamud was a great, innovative stylist, and the genius of his style lies in part in the exhilarating jolts resulting from his playful, comic prose colliding with profound moral content.
		That Malamud had the courage in 1971 to try to illuminate the relationship of these two stubborn groups through the story of two stubborn men is admirable.
		The finely drawn portrait of bright, phobic, acutely sensitive Kitty Dubin is a particular pleasure.Again Malamud gives us a fully fleshed-out contemporary woman, a novelty among his peers and almost absent from the work of today’s philogynistic propagandists.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2003/08/04&ID=Ar01400 (1413 words)

	PAL: Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
		Bernard Malamud: a study of the short fiction.
		Grau, Joseph A. "Bernard Malamud: A Further Bibliographical Addendum." Bulletin of Bibliography 38.2 (Apr-Jun 1981): 101-04.
		"The Achievement of Bernard Malamud." Midwest Quarterly 10 (1969): 379-89.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/malamud.html (451 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BERNARD MALAMUD'S second novel has been getting extremely friendly reviews, for he is a talented writer, has a particularly intense sympathy for his Jewish material, and-what doesn't always...
		...Malamud is the poet of the desperately clownish, not of the good who shall inherit the earthand this unusual gift of his comes through in two wonderful little portraits of Jews...
		...Malamud is an extremely sympathetic and feeling writer, and I don't mean to suggest that he is a surrealist pure...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V24I1P95-1.htm (1875 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Bernard Malamud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Malamud gives you a view of ‘the great national pastime' that you are not likely to find in the sports pages of your daily newspaper.' Stock# 24,748.
		Malamud, Bernard Rembrandt's Hat Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux NY 1973.
		Malamud, Bernard The Fixer Publisher: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966..
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Bernard_Malamud (1179 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Bernard Malamud - Books: Meet the Writers
		Concerned with many of the moral and spiritual questions at the heart of the Jewish-American experience, Bernard Malamud brought to his fiction the need to ask serious questions in the guise of compelling, page-turning stories.
		Malamud's second novel is the tale of a poor drifter who befriends a Jewish grocer and falls in love with the grocer's daughter -- finding himself on a surprising journey toward self-awareness.
		This compendium of lectures, essays and other ruminations on the writing life from the author is a trove for both Malamud fans and aspiring writers.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=968067 (345 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Natural, by Bernard Malamud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		...Malamud has the answer when he makes one of his characters explain that she hates to see a hero fail be- cause "there are so few of them...
		...Malamud uses her to point up the opposition between Roy's unenlightened appetites and the hero in him, but she looks for all that as if she would be much more at home in a James M. Cain novel...
		...Malamud would like us to think that his hero's defect is a classic case of hubris, his failure to make the sense of pride concrete in any way is a tip-off that he no more believes in the tragedy of pride than we do...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V15I3P107-1.htm (3477 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Bernard Malamud Put 'New Life' Into the American Novel
		As one who was beginning to fashion a career as a book reviewer, I knew it was necessary to familiarize myself with Malamud's work, as his novel "The Fixer" had swept the major prizes in 1967 and he was commonly regarded as among the most important writers of the day.
		The wit of Malamud's best work is much in evidence -- indeed, at times "A New Life" is laugh-out-loud funny -- but the novel is grounded in quotidian reality in ways not often found in his work.
		From 1949 until 1961 Malamud taught at what was then known as Oregon State College in Corvallis; Levin teaches (though only for one year) at Cascadia College, a "science and technology college" like Oregon State in which the liberal arts get little more than a nod.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A30171-2004Dec2?language=printer (1254 words)

	Bernard Malamud:An Inventory of his papers at The Valley Library Special CollectionsInventory prepared by Special ...
		Author Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 26, 1914.
		Malamud is considered one of the century's most significant American novelists and writers of short stories.
		Bernard Malamud Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
	oregonstate.edu /dept/spc/ead/malamud/malamudb.html (6897 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: American Prose Since 1945: Realism and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bernard Malamud was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents.
		Malamud's first published work was The Natural (1952), a combination of realism and fantasy set in the mythic world of professional baseball.
		Set in Russia around the turn of the 20th century, it is a thinly veiled glimpse at an actual case of blood libel -- the infamous 1913 trial of Mendel Beiliss, a dark, anti-Semitic blotch on modern history.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/LIT/malamud.htm (263 words)

	American Passages - Unit 14. Becoming Visible: Authors
		In Saul Bellow's eulogy to Bernard Malamud, he writes that "a language is a spiritual mansion from which no one can evict us.
		Malamud in his novels and stories discovered a sort of communicative genius in the impoverished, harsh jargon of immigrant New York.
		Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Erasmus High School and the City College of New York.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit14/authors-5.html (425 words)

	Amazon.fr : A New Life: Livres en anglais: Bernard Malamud,Jonathan Lethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.
		A New Life--as Jonathan Lethem's introduction makes clear--is Malamud at his best: with his belief in luck and new beginnings Sy Levin embodies the thwarted yearning for transcendence that is at the heart of all Malamud's work.
		Bernard Malamud (1914 - 1986) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Fixer and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel, a collection of stories.
	www.amazon.fr /New-Life-Bernard-Malamud/dp/0374529493 (434 words)

	Bernard Malamud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), perhaps more than any Jewish-American author in the twentieth century, including Saul Bellow, translated the literature of the Eastern European shtetl to the streets of America.
		The truth was that true to his literary forebears, I.L. Peretz and Sholom Aleichem, MalamudÕs reliance upon myth, legend, and magic often helped convey the most intimate details of existence, and consequently, lifeÕs pathos and sadness as much as lifeÕs joy and fulfillment.
		Malamud explicated the tragic role of the Jew in many of his stories, including The Fixer (1966), which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and later was adapted into a motion picture.
	www.emanuelnyc.org /bulletin/archive/35.html (533 words)

	Malamud, Bernard
		Malamud's first novel, The Natural (1952) is his least typical.
		In it, the young Italian assistant of an aged and suffering Jewish grocer moves from scorn to sympathy and eventual mythic identification with the old man and his religious values.
		Throughout his career Malamud published his short fiction in a wide variety of popular and literary magazines.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~montfell/biographies/g_n/malamudb.html (189 words)

	Powell's Books - Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love — love for a woman half is age, who has sought an understanding of her life through his books.
		Malamud has been more considerate of his turmoil this time around, and produced a novel whose cries of conscience, erotic remissions and ultimate vote for sanity are worked out with patience and therefore credibility."
		Bernard Malamud (1914-86) wrote eight novels; he won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for The Fixer, and the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel, a collection of stories.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0374528829 (479 words)

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