Isaac Bashevis Singer
Paperback | Pages: 133 pages Rating: 4.18 | 1289 Users | 100 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Di familye Mushkat |
| ISBN: | 0374503923 (ISBN13: 9780374503925) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Bancarella (1968) |
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The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully individual personalities, and the whole community pulsated with life and vitality. The affairs of the patriarchal Meshulam Moskat and the unworldly Asa Heshel Bannet provide the center of the book, but its real focus is the civilization that was destroyed forever in the gas chambers of the Second World War.Particularize About Books The Family Moskat
| Title | : | The Family Moskat |
| Author | : | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 133 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1988 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1950) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. Jewish. Novels. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Poland. Classics |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 1289 Users | 100 ReviewsComment On About Books The Family Moskat
3 1/2 starsAlthough this oftentimes charming but ultimately tragic novel is certainly worthwhile, there's too much of the melodrama about it to think of it as truly memorable. The book traces the lives and loves of a Jewish family living in Warsaw, Poland, beginning shortly after the turn of the century, and ending in September of 1939. Singer does skirt around some deeper questions, some pertaining to specific Jewish beliefs, some just as pertinent to non-Jews, but in the end, this is primarilyAfter reading 611 pages, I am still inside the thousand voices of all the Bashevis Singer characters. What a powerful book! So many issues, inside and outside of myself! And it seems that Bashevis Singer has great knowledge of the human soul. At moments I have been feeling so free, exhilarating, so Jewish and so inmortal! And then, as Asa Heshel Bannet (one of the main characters) keeps wondering, his thinking, his excruciating trip in this world captured me totally. What are we?, what religion
Chronicles from a vanished world.No one like Isaac Bashevis Singer is able to zoom on daily tiny details without losing focus on the whole plot and keeping your attention awake for more than 600 pages with no single moment of boredom or prolixity.So far, I have never found a wide bunch of so realistic fictional characters: each of them is beyond evil or good simply behaving just like each of us do, sometimes in a selfish way, sometimes being selfless. Potential villains may show humanity and
I read to live and this book is full of life. Life is living, marriage, divorce, and death. In all these, there is one common denominator which is suffering. The Family Moskat literally talks about the Moskat family. Their names are very difficult but I will talk about them nonetheless. Firstly, we have Asa, Haddassah, and Adele. Asa is a student who falls in love with Haddassah but marries Adele. The love becomes poisonous and they end up separating from each other. Asa joins the military
read most of it, very long but excellent writing and descriptions
I think this was the first book that I read by I.B. Singer and what a book. A sprawling multi-generational cast of characters in pre-Holocaust Warsaw, Poland live out their lives. And the bleak ending reminds us that all of that is about to be lost.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Family Moskat" provides an extremely sophisticated portrait of Poland's Jews during the first four decades of the twentieth century. It presents however two serious problems. Asa Heshel the protagonist is a rather vile individual who perversely misreads Spinoza and has dreadful personal morals. A more serious problem however is that Singer makes no effort to help the reader unfamiliar with the cultural context. An American author assumes that his reader knows who
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