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The Family Moskat

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Paperback | Pages: 116 pages

Rating: 4.18 | 1289 Users | 100 Reviews

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Title	:	The Family Moskat
Author	:	Isaac Bashevis Singer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 116 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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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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Original Title:	Di familye Mushkat
ISBN:	0374503923 (ISBN13: 9780374503925)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Premio Bancarella (1968)

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Student Review: Alanna H.The late 19th-early 20th century was a harrowing time for the Jewish people of Warsaw, Poland. Yet, the Moskat family endures. Meshulam Moskat, the family patriarch, controls his family with the iron fist of religion all the while becoming a major business man and accruing massive wealth. His family is large and complex, with seven children by different wives and numerous grand and great grandchildren. Any newcomers to the family must be approved by Meshulam. Asa

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

What a masterful sweeping saga...posterity is terrifying, and yet those who choose to have offspring, seem oblivious to the uncertainty presented by destiny.

'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

Damn. This book is amazing. Intimacy, searing criticism and tragedy of one Jewish family between the World Wars.



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