Open AccessDIASPORA TRANSITION-THE GERMAN REFUGEE BY BERNARD MALAMUD – INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Preeti Oza,
Ashmi Sheth
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
gap bodhi taru- a global journal of humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-5857
DOI - 10.47968/gapbodhi.310010
Subject(s) - refugee , diaspora , german , judaism , narrative , supper , history , art history , sociology , literature , gender studies , art , archaeology
Malamud emerged as a talented artist, depicting the life of the Jewish poor in New York. His creative works areappreciated for his allegory and mastery in the art of storytelling. Malamud was the son of Jewish grocers and hegrew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Some argue that this was the reason that he wrotestories "set in small, prisonlike stores of various kinds"Malamud explores the social realism and ethnic identity in most of his short stories – ‘The Jew Bird,’ ‘Black is myFavorite Color’, ‘The German Refugee’. Malamud's fictional works also include themes of compassion, redemption,new life, the potential of meaningful suffering and self-sacrifice, all of which can be found in “The German Refugee”"The German Refugee" concludes Bernard Malamud's second collection of short stories, Idiots First (1963). Thesetting is New York City in the summer of 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II.