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INDEX Proper names within quotation marks arefictional characters Abraham (Biblical patriarch), 115-17, 124 trials of, 148-50 "Abramowitz" (Talking Horse), 176, 178 academic novels, 88-91, 95-100 African-Americans, 163 Agnon, S. Y, xiv, 125 Akedah, 115-17, 124, 147, 149 Aleichem, Sholem, xiv, 125, 170 "Alpine, Frank," xvii, 26,101,112-13, 117, 147, 154, 169-70, 172, 180 Alter, Iska, 128 Amis, Kingsley, 88, 98 Amos (prophet), 71 anatta. See Buddhism anicca. See Buddhism anti-Semitism, 142-43, 165 Asch, Sholem, 125 assimilation, 61-63 assimilation, of Jews, 60-62,141, 144 Assistant, The, xi-xv, 16,20,30,36-38, 45,112,117,147,154,171-72, 175 analysis from Buddhist perspective, 72-85 Buddhist themes in, 69-76 Auden, W. H., 30 Ausubel, Nathan, 129 Baltimore, MD, xvii Baltimore Hebrew University, xvii Barthelme, Donald, 27 Barthes, Roland, 64 Bates, Alan, 30 Baumbach, Jonathan, 171 Beck, Rosemarie, xii astrological speculations, 46, 49 as forum for self-justification, 48 correspondence with Malamud, 43-55 judgments of art in, 51-52 multi-talents of, 45 mutual criticism in, 49-50 as painter, 50, 52 "Platonic" content of, 47 repressed romance in, 46-47, 54 self-abasement in, 47 Beiliss case as basis of The Fixer, 30-31,140,171 Belafonte, Harry, 31 "Bell, Irene," 117, 147 Bellow, Saul, xvi, 36, 44,172 Benjamin, Walter, 140-41, 143-44 Bennington College, xiii, xvi-xvii, 31, 35-36,41-42,49 Berg Collection. See Beck, Rosemarie Bible, Hebrew, 71 Birnbaum, Philip, 124 Blaney, Larry, 20-21 "Blick, Fanny," 103 213 214 INDEX Bloom, Harold, 133 "Bloom, Yozip," xvii Bluefarb, Sam, 126-27 "Bober, Helen," xv, 117, 147, 155, 169, 171 "Bober, Morris," xi, 26-27, 112-13, 139, 154, 169-72, 176, 179 "Bok, Yakov," 101, 139, 147, 156, 169, 171-72,177-78 "Borisovich, Anatoly," 145--46 Bradbury, Malcolm, 89 Briganti, Chiara, 104, 108 Brooklyn, NY, xi, xv, 3,20 Buber, Martin, 171 Buddhism, 69-74, 79-85 Four Noble Truths, 72, 81-82 "Blinder, Dr." See God's Grace "Buz" (chimpanzee). See God's Grace Calvin, John, 112 Cambridge, MA, 35 "Cascadia College," 91, 93, 95, 99 Chagall, Marc, 38, 40, 154, 158 Chaplin, Charles, 6, 22 Chekhov, Anton, xv Cheuse, Alan, 38, 42n chiasmus, 176-85 Christianity, 69-71, 112-16, 134 "Cohn, Calvin," 39, 111-19, 159--60 seven Admonitions of, 114 Columbia University Malamud's M. A. from, 14 Connolly, Cyril, 41 Conrad, Joseph, 89-90 Cooper, James Fenimore, 63-64 Cooper Union, 26 Corvallis, OR, 13, 16-17,20-22 Malamud's life in, 3-11 physical description, 3--4 Dante (Alighieri), 154 deconstruction, 96-99 "del Dongo, Isabella," 147-51 Dessner, Lawrence, 127 Diaspora, 61-62, 71 Dogen, Eihei, 73 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, xv Dreyfus affair, 31 "Dubin, Kitty," 102-9 "Dubin, Maud," 104 "Dubin, William," xiv, 101-9, 158 Dubin's Lives, xi-xii, xiv, 41, 49,158 critical analysis of, 101-9 Ducharme, Robert, 80 Dylan, Bob epigraph by, III Eco, Umberto, 65 Edel, Leon, 104 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 8 Ellis Island, 60 Enomiya-Lasalle, Hugo, 70-71 Ephraim ben Jacob, Rabbi, 116 "Esau." See God's Grace "Fairchild, Professor," 91 Faulkner, William, xi "Fidelman, Arthur," 46, 49, 59--63, 65--67, 128-35 Fiedler, Leslie, 100 Field, Joyce, 139 Field, Leslie, 108, 139 "Finkle, Leo," 39--40, 95, 118, 126-27, 153-54, 158, 177 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 89 Fixer, The, 30-31, 48,140,147,156,161, 164,171-72 Flood, Second. See God's Grace Foreman, Walter, 21 "Foster, Roger," 106 Foucault, Michel, 65, 100 Fried, Lewis, 61 Frost, Robert, 27, 109 Garrison, Chester, 3 recollections of Malamud at Oregon State, 13-21 Gass, William, 97 "Gassner, Oskar," 141--43, 152 Gealy, Marcia, 124 "George" (gorilla). See God's Grace "Gilley, Pauline," 95 Gilman, Richard, xvi INDEX 215 God's Grace, xi-xii, xiv, xvii, 32, 39, 78, 158 critical analysis, 111-19 as Malamud's "most Jewish nove!," 111 "Goldberg, Martin," 141-43 Gollin, Rita K., 106 "Golov, Marfa," 156 "Gottlob." See God's Grace "Greenfield, Oscar," 109 Greenspan, Ezra, 130 Haggard-Gilson, Nancy, 62 Hardy, Thomas, 14, 88 "Harvitz, Howard," 143-44, 152 Hasidism, 124 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, xi, xv, 89, 99 Hemingway, Ernest, 31, 90, 92 Hershinow, Sheldon, 127, 132 Hillel,23 "Hirshchorn, Lily," 127 historical theory, 62-67 "Hobbs, Roy," 156-57, 167-68, 172, 179 Holocaust, The, 60-61, 129 in Malamud stories, 139-52 Hovland, Warren, 3 Howe,Irving,39,62 humanism, 69...

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