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Original Title:	Di familye Mushkat
ISBN:	0374503923 (ISBN13: 9780374503925)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Premio Bancarella (1968)

The Family Moskat

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Paperback | Pages: 269 pages

Rating: 4.18 | 1289 Users | 100 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	The Family Moskat
Author	:	Isaac Bashevis Singer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 269 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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By any standard, the word sweeping well suits Singer's novel "The Family Moskat." The novel spreads over almost a century of transformative history, ending at the outbreak of World War II, which will see before its end the entire civilization represented transformed into nothing but ash. Yet in the fashion of Tolstoy, Singer does not allow the great events he illustrates - WWI, the birth of modern Poland, the destruction of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, the 1917 Revolution, the rise of Zionism -

"The Family Moskat" was the first English-translated novel by the Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer. Polish born, son of a Hasidic rabbi, Singer vividly portrays Warsaw Jewish ghetto life. The characters are somewhat dissolute, not atypical of Singers writings. They also debate philosophical issues (Spinoza, etc.) and the importance of Zionism and the founding of Israel as a Jewish state; many Hasidic Jews felt that this was usurping the role of the coming Messiah. However ultimately this is

'this is the bread of affliction which our forefathers ate in the Land of Egypt',, August 14, 2014 This review is from: The Family Moskat: A Novel (FSG Classics) (Paperback)Compelling family saga set in the Jewish community of Warsaw. The novel opens in the years before WWI : the wealthy patriarch of the family has just returned from taking the waters, bringing with him a new wife - and a stepdaughter. There's much irritation among his children by his previous two wives; they are also unhappy

I liked this book a lot - a sort of Polish Jewish Forsythe Saga...

read most of it, very long but excellent writing and descriptions

Let me stipulate that Isaac Bashevis Singer is a great writer. I think he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And sometimes I like what he writes. But not this time. I know this is a great novel. Written in 1950, it tells the story of a Polish Jewish family -- actually several related families -- during the time before the First World War up to just before the Nazi invasion of Poland. It describes through the lives of these people the world that existed before it was turned inside out and

A fascinating account of a Polish familys slow destruction from the 1900s through the onset of WWII, primarily due to the death of their wealthy patriarch and WWI. Reading Singer is like running downhill, its hard to stop once you pick it up (even if it takes three months to actually finish). Now I know I like his epics as much as his short stories and smaller novels, regardless of subject matter.