The Magic Barrel

The Magic Barrel Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • The Scope of Caricature
  • Comic Vision and the Theme of Identity
  • 'The Magic Barrel': Bernard Malamud, 1914–
  • 'The Magic Barrel': Pinye Salzman's Kadish
  • The Magic in Malamud's Barrel
  • Dickens and 'The Magic Barrel'
  • Pinye Salzman, Pan, and 'The Magic Barrel'
  • The Americanization of Leo Finkle
  • Something Fishy in 'The Magic Barrel'
  • The Playfulness of Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel'
  • Akedah and Community in 'The Magic Barrel'
• Further Reading