Bernard Malamud, one of the major American novelists of the postwar generation, award literary prizes need not be submitted to the Russian reader. In Russia, published four collections of short stories B.Malamuda "Shoes servant" (1967), "Rembrandt's Hat" (1990), "the first Idiots" (1993), "The Angel Levine," the novel "Master" (2002). "Benefit" - the fifth book of stories B.Malamuda in Russia - is made up of stories, print the first time. They tell about the life of Jewish immigrants, hardly fit into American society.