The fixer

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...

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Glavni autor: Malamud, Bernard, 1914-1986 (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1966.
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245 1 4 |a The fixer /  |c Bernard Malamud. 
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300 |a 335 p. ;  |c 21 cm. 
520 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Jews  |z Ukraine  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Trials (Murder)  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Antisemitism  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Kiev (Ukraine)  |v Fiction. 
655 7 |a Historical fiction.  |2 gsafd 
655 7 |a Jewish fiction.  |2 lcsh 
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