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    <body><![CDATA[What a difficult book to read, and, I can only imagine, to write. We start with the injustice of poverty and lack of opportunity in the shtetl and move almost directly into a variety of unjust accusations leveled against Yakov Bok, who has become a scapegoat for all the imagined evil deeds of all th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24477171">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my least favorite books ever]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a painful yet very good eye-opening read of life told by a Jewish handyman as a looking glass into the greater anti-Semitic tensions of late pre-Lenin Russia.  Yakov’s world is marked by upheaval and suspicion.  On the one hand, radical revolution is taking shape in Russia, as people ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63441791">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book in college and it's been sitting on my shelf unopened until last week. This novel was written well, and it was based on a true incident where a Jewish man was tried and convicted of murdering a Russian boy who was actually killed by his own mother. It was set in Russia during the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57427576">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this would be a good complement to a history class on the importance of the Bill of Rights. This book demonstrates the prejudice against the Jews in Russia and the lack of justice in the Russian legal system.  A Jew is held in prison for 3 years without an indictment and because anti-semit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72416187">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was pretty good, especially once I got the thesis. The prose was really dry.<br/><br/>It was a look at the pervasive anti-Semitism of Tsarist Russia and also how much it would totally suck to be in a 19teens Russian prison. I felt really bad for the protagonist, but not so much because I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34801611">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in just over two days.  I couldn't stop myself.  <br/><br/>Although, the main character, Yakov Bok, endures the most extreme injustices, I don't think this book is just a story about suffering.  I think this is more the story of a strong will transcending abuse.  <br/><br/>Berna...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18664235">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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