Masterpieces of Short Fiction

A New World Fable - Malamud's "The Jewbord" (1x17)

Air date: Jan 01, 2008

Malamud's story about a fantastical Jewish black bird named Schwartz offers another version of Magical Realism, one that reflects growing anxieties about the assimilation of Eastern European Jews in the United States during the 20th century.