Additional Resources for The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

The Fixer For Further Study

Salo Wittemayer Baron, The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets, MacMillan, 1976.

This highly regarded book is out of print but still on the shelves of many school libraries

Joel Carmichael, The Satanmng of the Jews- Origin and Development of Mystical Anti-Semitism, Fromm International, 1993.

This book examines the history behind the attitude that allowed the population of Kiev to be stirred up against Yakov and made them believe that, because of his religion, he would have perpetuated a ritualistic bloodletting.

Simon Dubnow, History of the Jews, 4th definitive revised edition, T. Yoseloff, 1973

Dubnow is a greatly respected Jewish historian, and this work, originally published in Russian, contains the bulk of his life's work.

Robert Ducharme, Art and Idea in the Novels of Bernard Malamud- Toward The Fixer, Mouton Publisher, 1974. One of the most thorough scholarly books written about The Fixer, examining...
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