The Suffering and Struggle of Jews for Identity

Bernard Malamud, the most Jewish of American Jewish writers was born in 1914 to parents migrated from Russia. This book about the Jews introduces the readers with the suffering and struggle of Jews for identity as the Jew is always presented with loaded remarks and harsh comments. This book is an attempt to explore and reveal the melancholic state of the Jews. It explains how the East European Jews have managed to survive centuries of humiliation and persecution without losing their humanity.