The Fixer

Introduction

The Fixer is a novel by Bernard Malamud published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.[1] It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction (his second)[2] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[3]

The Fixer provides a fictionalized version of the Beilis case. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Jew unjustly imprisoned in Tsarist Russia. The "Beilis trial" of 1913 caused an international uproar and Beilis was acquitted by a jury.

The book was adapted into a 1968 film of the same name starring Alan Bates (Yakov Bok) who received an Oscar nomination.


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