(JTA) Late last year, a mom in South Carolina requested that her local school district remove nearly 100 books from its shelves including a classic novel about antisemitism. The challenge to “The Fixer,” an award-winning 1966 work by Bernard Malamud, came amid an ongoing flurry of attempts by conservative activists to take […]
Jewish author Bernard Malamud's book on antisemitism has been challenged before and led to a Supreme Court decision on book bans. Now, a South Carolina mom wants it gone again