Analysis of Bernard Malamud's "The Magic Barrel"

In traditional Jewish society, the marriage arranged is an approved marriage model. Today, in the modern Orthodox Jewish community, the arranged marriage still exists. Shadchanim or marriage broker is a respected member of society. Usually, shadchanim is rabbis, and they think that arranging marriages is one of their responsibilities for the community. But over time the marriage arrangements lost their distinction and became the living of the lower class of Jewish society.

Bernard Malamud's 1954 short story "Magic Barrel" is one of the most famous literary works on matchmaking. With the New York Yiddish culture, Malamud knit a story about a mysterious stranger who promised to find a wife for a busy rabbi. It can be seen in the complete story of Malamud published by Farrar, Straus & Gireaux in 1997. Indeed, Wilder used two paragraphs. They adopted them directly from L'Avare of Molière translated into English as The Miser. Moliére: Two versions of Four Plays published by Branden Publishing Co. in 1999

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"MAGERN BARREL", BERNARD MALAMUD (1958) BERNARD M ALAMUD herself helped to understand the Jewish culture as one of the most important Jewish American writers of the 20th century. It is the mainstream of literature. Magic Barrel received the National Book Award in 1959 and is widely considered to be his best collection of short stories. In "The Magic Barrel", a young man studying rabbis at New York University, Leo Finkel and Salto Mann, the marriage agent Leo's dependence, hindered from enjoying social life. Salzman is a member of a salesman and some are fantastic, but that is because he has an office somewhere in the air, and about a bucket full of beautiful potential marriage partners Leo may choose Because it is talking. In general, it includes the Maramud theme of love and people suffering; especially at other levels, various explanations seem to be possible.

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