YAKOV BOK IS A HANDYMAN A FIXER ONE OF THE WORLD'S MODEST LITTLE MEN, BESET BY ANXIETIES, TORMENTED BY THE IRRATIONAL PREJUDICE OF HIS NEIGHBORS, AND PERSECUTED BY THE AGENTS OF A REMOTE AND ALL POWERFUL STATE. WHEN YAKOV IS AT LAST PUSHED TOO FAR, HE TRIUMPHS OVER BRUTALITY AND DEGRADATION TO EMERGE AS A MORAL GIANT BERNARD MALAMUD 1914-1986-WON BOTH THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WITH "THE FIXER."
De lijdensweg van een eenvoudige joods-Russische handwerksman die omstreeks 1910 wegens een klein vergrijp gearresteerd wordt en, beschuldigd van het plegen van een rituele moord, onder mensonterende omstandigheden, zonder uitzicht op een eerlijk proces, gevangen gehouden wordt.
Fachman : Kijów, rok 1911 : Żyd Jakow Bok oskarżony o mord rytualny
Kiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at the Jews. Yakov Bok - a handyman hiding his Jewish identity from his anti-Semitic employer - is first outed and blamed. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit. What becomes of this man under pressure, for whom acquittal is made to seem as hopeless as conviction, is the subject of a terrifying masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction.
L'uomo di Kiev
When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found murdered, citizens of Kiev suspect the Jews in the city. A handyman named Yakov Bok is blamed and unduly persecuted for the crime.
"Yakov Bok, a handyman, is arrested and charged with the killing of a Christian boy. Innocent of the crime, he is only guilty of being a Jew in Czarist Russia. In jail he is mentally and physically tortured as a scapegoat for a crime he insists he did not commit. Although his suffering and degradation are unrelenting, Bok emerges a hero as he maintains his innocence. Malamud has fashioned a powerful story of injustice and endurance based on a true incident." Shapiro. fic for Youth 2d edition.
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.
El reparado
A mesterember
Fiction
Syndabock : roman
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.
Historical fiction
Altmuligmanden : en roman
El reparador
Jewish fiction
El hombre de Kiev
Fachman : Kijów, rok 1911 - Żyd Jakow Bok oskarżony o mord rytualny
Electronic books
The Fixer
Fixer
In Tsarist Russia, Yakov is accused of a ritual murder he did not commit.
Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman, is accused of the murder of a young Russian boy and refuses to confess to a crime he did not commit in spite of the injustices committed against him.
A mesterember : [regény]
Legal stories
Jøder
Tuomittu : Romaani
Popravljac
Tells of the persecution of a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in turn- of-the-century Russia.
Altmuligmanden
In Tsarist Russian, Yakov is accused of a ritual murder he did not commit.
The fixer
Italian Americans New York (N. Y.) Fiction.