Word: beiliss
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...conclusion: there is no such thing as indifference; an abstention from humanity is a vote for evil. When Yakov goes to trial the story halts, as if the future were epilogue. Unfortunately, it is not. Malamud based his novel on the agonies of a real Russian Jew, Mendel Beiliss, who was finally exonerated. Torn between actuality and false doom, The Fixer becomes a victim of artistic indecision...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. The 1913 Beiliss trial, the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case, becomes an opportunity for Novelist Malamud to analyze the individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. The 1913 Beiliss trial, the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case, becomes an opportunity for Novelist Malamud to analyze the individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. This fictional version of the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case-the Beiliss trial-becomes a vehicle for Malamud's probing analysis of the modern individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...
...superpatriotic society of prerevolutionary Russia resembling in many ways the Ku Klux Klan.* Mendel Beiliss was at length exonerated, but not before his show trial had served its purpose. He died, at 60, in obscurity in New York...