Rethinking the Stories of Rembrandt’s Hat, by Bernard Malamud

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Burch ◽  
Burch
Keyword(s):  
Bernard Malamud

Jews, Blacks and the Cold War at the Top

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
John Murray Cuddihy
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Bernard Malamud ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Christ Figures

That Bernard Malamud passes as a Jewish author is a commentary on the cultural and theological illiteracy of our times. Jewish by descent, his literary themes and values are Christian, echt Christian, sometimes nauseatingly so. "Malamud's themes," Stanley Edgar Hyman informed us long ago in The New Leader, "are the typical themes of the New Testament: charity, compassion, sacrifice, redemption…." He added: "these Christian themes are thoroughly secularized." Malamud's central theme, with variations, is not merely redemption, but redemption through love, through sacrificial, universal, altruistic, agapic, Christian love. His heroes are Christ figures. But the d£cor of his novels and their characters are largely Jewish. And that's where the confusion begins.

Versions of Immobility: The Contemporary American Writer and the Jewish Tradition

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 78-98
Author(s):  
Jonathan Raban
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Philip Roth ◽  
Saul Bellow ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Bernard Malamud ◽  
Jewish Experience ◽  
Urban Problems

The “Jewishness” of recent American fiction has already been well explored. But discussion of the work of Jewish writers tends to be retrospective: it leads back to the shtetl and the shlemiel without considering how “Americanised” Jewish forms and themes have become. Clearly, recent authors such as Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow are indebted to a fund of “Jewish experience”. But their novels are “American”, far more concerned with twentieth-century urban problems than with the enclosed life of the traditional Jewish community. This essay therefore attempts to assess how far “Jewish” localised material has been translated into specifically “American” terms.

scholarly journals A visão de Deus em A Cor Púrpura de Alice Walker e O Bode Expiatório de Bernard Malamud

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e553997579
Author(s):  
Hélio Dias Furtado
Keyword(s):  
Alice Walker ◽  
Bernard Malamud

Os ensinamentos religiosos que fazem parte da herança da humanidade estão constantemente sendo reinterpretados à medida que a realidade e os valores humanos vão mudando. Nesse processo, a literatura também dá a sua contribuição, questionando alguns valores e revelando o seu caráter de imposição e dominação social. Nesse trabalho, nós vamos analisar como isso acontece em dois romances de escritores norte-americanos, A cor púrpura, de Alice Walker e O bode expiatório (The Fixer), de Bernard Malamud. Sendo oriundos de grupos étnicos diferentes, esses escritores questionam a representação tradicional de Deus a partir da realidade de seu grupo social, Walker da perspectiva de uma feminista e ativista negra enquanto que Malamud o faz da perspectiva do judaísmo. O questionamento deles será determinado pelas injustiças que seus grupos sofrem enquanto minorias sociais. Ao final, veremos que, apesar de virem de meio sociais diferentes, na raiz do questionamento dos dois escritores está o ideal de luta pela própria liberdade que é um valor tão forte na cultura norte-americana. Assim, esse se torna o parâmetro e a medida para se questionar noções religiosas seculares nos romances desses autores.

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