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'Not particularly rallglouB"
Malamud gets B'nai B'rith
award for * 1 excel lenee''
Author Ber-
NEW YORK
nard Malamud, whose
characters play out the human
experience In a strongly Jewish
I metaphor, told a B’nai B’rith
I audience hie own childhood “was
! not particularly religious.”
But, he said in accepting the
organization’s annual Jewish
[ ‘Heritage Award for excellence in
k literature, “at a certain point in
my youth I felt the need to
define myself aa a Jew.”
Malamud’s parents, who
emigrated from Russia early in
the century, were busy
scratching out a living from
their grocery. “So I came to
knowledge of Jewish life mostly
Author Bernard Malamud (right) receives the 1976 B’nai
B’rith Jewish Heritage Award for excellence in literature from
Elie Wiesei, first winner of the ll.OM prise in 1965.
through people, not formal author added, among them the
education” he said. I learned World War II era “when a
about Jews by living among million refugees wandered on
them and by reading their thousands of constricted, hard
books.” dark roads and sailed on closed
Malamud, winner of a Pulitzer seas to closed ports; and when
Prize and two National Book multitudes of Jews were ira-
Awards, quoted the rabbi’s prisohed and destroyed, without
funeral eulogy in his celebrated mercy by men or heavenly in-
novel “The Assistant” to tervention.
dramatize that “there are many “I did not live the experience
ways to be a Jew.” in day-to-day terror . . . but in
He had “consciously related to my imagination was affected by
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Irvin Husin, UAHC tour com
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Among the scholars, teachers
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Max I. Dimont, author of the
best selling “Jews, God and
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pianist Jerome Lowenthal; com
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and violinist Sergiu Luca.
UAHC president, Rabbi Alex
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as chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations, will share
behind-the-scenes highlights of
private conferences with Presi
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Cyrus Vance, Henry Kissinger,
and Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin.
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