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The problems of the assignment of holocaust and survivor are aimed to study through the works of three Jewish American writers, Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet, Edward Lewis Wallant's The Pawnbroker, and Bernard Malamud's The Magic Barrel. and The Fixer. Mr. Sammler in Mr. Sammler's Planet, who has been moving toward a relationship with God for several years, confirms that relationship at the death of Elya. He has come to understand that his assignment is from God, and becomes, like Job, a meditator between his friends and God. Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker is finally a Holocaust survivor with a chance for an optimistic future. Those who have suffered extremely tend to become instead the nurturers, preservers. Interestingly once these survivors recognize, acknowledge, accept their roles, their lives improve. Malamud's The Magic Barrel and The Fixer, emphasizing as the other works do the moral and ethical values culled from the teachings of Judaism, makes clear the possibilities for being a good Jew even if one is not an observant Jew. Levin in The Magic Barrel and Yakov Bok in The Fixer know very well the religious observances he left behind.