The Brothers Ashkenazi
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140187779 (0140187774)
Publish date: December 1st 1993
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
There once was a writer I ranked among the best ones I've ever read. That author bore the surname of Singer and won a Nobel Prize in Literature back in 1978. Even though he was born in Poland and spent most of his life in the US, Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote in Yiddish, his mother tongue. He died ...
This is an excellent companion to the World War One readings I've been doing for the past several weeks, a subject pretty unknown to me.The Brothers Ashkenazi follows the lives of twin brothers in Lodz, Poland from the latter 1800's to just past the first world war. Max, the striver and schemer, wor...