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Title: The Brothers Ashkenazi (Twentieth-Century Classics) by Israel Joshua Singer, Irving Howe, Joseph Singer ISBN: 0140187774 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33
Rating: 3
Summary: A break from traditional Yiddish literature
Comment: I.J. Singer's work is a large-scale novel, with a multitude of characters and plots, the first attempt of a Yiddish writer to break away from the traditional short fiction depicting life in the shtelt. It is the result of exposure to European literature late in the 19th century, and reflects the dilemma of Jewish milieu torn apart from its traditional roots and having to face the rise of capitalism and communism. The main character, Max Ashkenazi is despicable by all means, obsessed by money and power, with a Machiavellian mind, and despite all his success has a sad end in life. Considering the conflicting time in which the novel takes place (first four decades of the 20th century), the main plot reflects the author's pessimistic and skeptic view of the place the Jew might have in modern society: be it amongst the capitalists or the communists, the Jew will always be misplaced and will never loose his stigma as scapegoat in times of trouble. The reader familiar with wthe work of Joshua's younger brother (Isaac Bashevis Singer) will certainly realize that the brothers share little in terms of literary production, each one with his own merits, albeit I.B. Singer surpasses in magnitude and depth.
Rating: 5
Summary: It is good story, rich in character and broad in reach.
Comment: The story begins at the beginning, prior to the nearly simultaneous birth of two brothers. Not quite Cain and Abel, the brothers grow apart and together, mixing people,places,positions. With verve and breadth, it tells how each individual becomes his own choices, with the help and the hindrance of the Jewish community in Poland in the early 20th century. What a story!
Rating: 5
Summary: amazing
Comment: This book is an amazing piece of work. You can really see the struggles that the Jewish population in Poland had to endure in the decades before WWII. Some of the characters are truly detestable at, other times they are to be pitied. All in all, a very tragic book.
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Title: Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer ISBN: 0374524793 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer ISBN: 0449240665 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 1980 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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Title: The Nazi Officer's Wife : How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith H. Beer ISBN: 068817776X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok ISBN: 0449207145 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer ISBN: 0618173870 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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