The fixer /
Malamud, Bernard, 1914-1986.
The fixer / Bernard Malamud. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1966. - 335 p. ; 21 cm.
Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.
94157757
Jews--Ukraine--Fiction.
Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
Antisemitism--Fiction.
Kiev (Ukraine)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Jewish fiction.
PS3563.A4 / F5 1966c
813/.54
The fixer / Bernard Malamud. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1966. - 335 p. ; 21 cm.
Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.
94157757
Jews--Ukraine--Fiction.
Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
Antisemitism--Fiction.
Kiev (Ukraine)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Jewish fiction.
PS3563.A4 / F5 1966c
813/.54