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1) The fixer
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
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....
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