The Family Moskat

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The Family Moskat is a sweeping Yiddish novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer that chronicles the fortunes and moral struggles of a prominent Jewish family in prewar Poland.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Yiddish-language novel
novel
associatedCulture Ashkenazi Jewish culture
associatedReligion Judaism
author Isaac Bashevis Singer
countryOfOrigin Poland
depicts Jewish community in prewar Poland
fictionalFamily Moskat family
genre family saga
historical fiction
hasPerspective omniscient third-person narration
hasSubject Orthodox Judaism
assimilation
faith and doubt
intergenerational conflict
marriage and infidelity
hasTranslation English
hasType sweeping epic
languageOfWorkOrName Yiddish
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Jewish literature
Yiddish literature
literaryReputation classic of Yiddish literature
important work of 20th-century Jewish fiction
mainTheme Jewish family life
decline of traditional Jewish society in Eastern Europe
moral struggle
religious tradition versus modernity
medium print
narrativeScope multi-generational family saga
notableWorkOf Isaac Bashevis Singer
originalLanguage Yiddish
placeInAuthorOeuvre major work of Isaac Bashevis Singer
portraysHistoricalContext decline of the shtetl world
social changes in interwar Poland
settingLocation Poland
settingPeriod pre-World War II era
targetAudience adult readers

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Der Nister ("The Family Mashber")
Icek Hersz Zynger
Isaac Bashevis Singer
notableWork
Yiddish literature
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