‘A quiet, loving man’

Bernard Malamud, a resident of the Five Towns for 44 years, died on Aug. 2 at his home in North Woodmere. He was 80.

Malamud grew up in Brooklyn, where he attended Samuel J. Tilden High School, before graduating from Brooklyn College. After school, Malamud went on to work for his family’s business that had multiple paint supply stores in East New York, Brooklyn, before purchasing Mill Basin Hardware also in Brooklyn in 1978.

His daughter, Andrea Zucker, said Malamud was an active member of Temple Hillel in North Woodmere as well as the Knights of Pythias. History was also a passion of his. “He was very interested in reading history books; he loved history,” said Zucker, adding that her father was a “quiet and loving” man.

Malamud is survived by his wife, Lenore Malamud, his children, Frederick and Robin Malamud and Andrea and Charles Zucker, his grandchildren, Justin, Scott and Lexi Zucker and Brett, Jenna and Zachary Malamud, his sister Sylvia Gallub and his sister-in-law Molly Lewis.

Services were held at Boulevard-Riverside Chapels in Hewlett on Aug. 5. He was interred at New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon.