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Bernard Malamud, the famous Jewish American writer, indicates in his classic The Fixer that the relationship between Yakov's personal memory, historical memory, and the community of different dimensions is mutually causative and representative, and that it is characterized by separation, deconstruction, division, and construction. Yakov's miserable life has gone through different stages: while working as a supervisor in Kiev, he tries to cover up the historical memory and obtain a false identity, but his failure eventually leads to the breakup of the community with a shared economic interest; after Yakov is imprisoned as a scapegoat due to the disclosure of his Jewish ethnicity, the Russian officials, whose memory of religious trauma is awakened, and the priests form a political community with the common goal of ensuring justice for the dead; Yakov experiences the recovery of historical memory and reconstructs a sense of his ethnic identity, while the Jewish community with a shared destiny evolves from division to aggregation. The novel brilliantly integrates memory writing with communities of different dimensions and shows the profound impact and cultural imprint of memory on individuals and ethnic groups at both diachronic and synchronic levels. Historical memory redefines individual identity, awakens the collective unconsciousness of ethnic groups, strengthens the sense of national identity and, to a certain extent, shapes up the Jewish American community with a shared future.
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