The Fixer retells a Jewish man’s story in Russia during a peak of anti-Semitism in the early 1900s. Yakov Bok’s wife has left him after four years and he is struggling to live working as a fixer. He decides to move from his small town to Kiev, a city supposedly replete with jobs. Yakov struggles living in his small apartment in the Jewish Quarters and becom

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