Moskat family

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The Moskat family is a fictional Jewish family at the center of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel "The Family Moskat," representing the changing world of Polish Jewry before World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional family
literary character group
appearsIn The Family Moskat
associatedWith Hasidic background
Jewish bourgeoisie in Poland
centralThemeIn The Family Moskat
createdBy Isaac Bashevis Singer
fictionalLocation Polish shtetl milieu
Warsaw
firstPublicationYearOfWork 1950
hasEthnicity Jewish
hasMember Adele Moskat
Asa Heshel
Meshulam Moskat
surface form: Baruch Moskat

Emil Moskat
Meshulam Moskat
surface form: Ezriel Moskat

Koppel Moskat
Lola Moskat
Meshulam Moskat
Shifra Moskat
Yoshke Moskat
hasReligion Judaism
hasSettingCountry Poland
hasSettingPeriod pre–World War II era
hasTheme Zionism and emigration
assimilation
economic change
family decline
impact of war on Jewish communities
marriage and infidelity
religious tradition versus modernity
secularization of Jewish life
hasWorkTitle The Family Moskat
languageOfWork English translation
Yiddish
narrativeFunction microcosm of prewar Jewish society in Poland
symbol of the fate of Polish Jewry
portrays generational conflict
social stratification within Jewish communities
tension between faith and skepticism
urbanization of Jewish life
represents Polish Jews
surface form: Polish Jewry

changing Jewish life in Eastern Europe
workAuthorLanguage Yiddish
workAuthorNationality Polish-American
workGenre family saga
historical novel
workOriginalLanguage Yiddish

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