Enemies, A Love Story

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Enemies, A Love Story is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores the psychological and moral turmoil of a Holocaust survivor entangled in complex romantic relationships in postwar New York.

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instanceOf novel
adaptation Enemies, A Love Story self-linksurface differs
surface form: Enemies, A Love Story (film)
adaptationType feature film
author Isaac Bashevis Singer
characterRelationship Herman Broder has an affair with Masha
Herman Broder is married to Yadwiga
Tamara
surface form: Tamara is Herman Broder's first wife
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalContext post-Holocaust Jewish diaspora
filmAdaptationDirector Paul Mazursky
filmAdaptationReleaseYear 1989
genre Holocaust literature
postwar fiction
psychological novel
romantic drama
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement 20th-century American Jewish literature
literaryReputation considered one of Singer's best-known novels
mainCharacter Herman Broder
Masha
Tamara
Yadwiga
narrativeFocus complex romantic relationships
moral dilemmas after the Holocaust
psychological turmoil of a Holocaust survivor
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableAwardAssociation Isaac Bashevis Singer Nobel Prize in Literature 1978
originalLanguage Yiddish
originalPublicationMedium Yiddish press
placeInAuthorOeuvre major work of Isaac Bashevis Singer
protagonistBackground Holocaust survivor
publisherLanguageEdition English translation published in the United States
settingLocation New York City NERFINISHED
settingTime post–World War II era
subjectMatter conflict between desire and moral responsibility
emotional consequences of surviving genocide
theme identity crisis
love and betrayal
marital infidelity
memory and trauma
postwar Jewish life in America
religious doubt
survivor guilt

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Isaac Bashevis Singer notableWork Enemies, A Love Story