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of his innocence regarding the murder “I swear to you, I am innocent of any serious crime. The worst I am guilty of is stupidity-of living in the Luskianovsky without permission… but certainly, not of any serious crimes.” And for a small uncomplicated lie he is charged with a huge, very complicated murder, thus proving to us how the title has a more profound meaning than is literally intended. The title is also very ironic. The man is a fixer, and yet he is not be able to fix anything regarding his unlucky life. The book The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud, is a powerful novel describing the anti-Semitism felt throughout Russia during the pre-revolution era. It is a historical novel which teaches us what it was like to be a Jew living in Russia. It is important not only to better

understand Russian history but to try to better understand anti-Semitism, which led to the killing of many innocent lives. It is the anti-Semitism that caused World War two and the death of six million Jews. Anti-Semitism was also a major cause of the Zionist movement which resulted in the formation of the state of Israel in 1948.