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The Brothers Ashkenazi (1936)

de Israel Joshua Singer

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In the Polish city of Lodz, the Brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially by any means necessary. Slower-witted Jacob is strong, handsome, and charming but without great purpose in life. While Max is driven by ambition and greed to be more successful than his brother, Jacob is drawn to easy living and decadence. As waves of industrialism and capitalism flood the city, the brothers and their families are torn apart by the clashing impulses of old piety and new skepticism, traditional ways and burgeoning appetites, and the hatred that grows between faiths, citizens, and classes. Despite all attempts to control their destinies, the brothers are caught up by forces of history, love, and fate, which shape and, ultimately, break them. First published in 1936, The Brothers Ashkenazi quickly became a bestseller as a sprawling family saga. Breaking away from the introspective shtetl tales of classic nineteenth-century writers, I. J. Singer brought to Yiddish literature the multilayered plots, large casts of characters, and narrative sweep of the traditional European novel. Walking alongside such masters as Zola, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, I. J. Singer's pre-modernist social novel stands as a masterpiece of storytelling.… (més)
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A Yiddish Tolstoy/Hardy. ( )
  markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |
Loved the book. It is the story of two Chasidic brothers who live in prewar Poland. It goes until between the two world wars. Singer is an amazing writer. The characters are well developed and multifaceted. He gives a lot of information about the historical period so that it is easy to follow the story. This is a story I would definitely recommend. ( )
  KamGeb | Nov 6, 2019 |
Dopo avere letto La Famiglia Karnowski di I. J. Singer oggi ho finito di leggere I Fratelli Ashkenazi. Il romanzo è bellissimo. E' un romanzo storico, nel senso che le vicende narrate sono inserite in un preciso contesto storico riscontrabile in testi specifici. E' un romanzo di formazione perché le vicende narrate si svolgono parallelamente al formarsi ed al evolversi dell'esperienza del protagonista. E' un romanzo che parla del mondo come è piuttosto come del mondo come deve essere, ricordando a tale proposito più Verga che Manzoni. Personalmente la lettura del romanzo mi ha riportato alla mente un'altra grande opera anche se di genere diverso, un film, 2001 Odissea Nello Spazio di S. Kubrick, anche lui di origine ebraico-europee orientali. Nonostante il mutare delle situazioni e delle ideologie socio-politiche, l'atteggiamento dei non ebrei nei confronti dell'ebreo rimane immutabile quasi fosse il monolite nero che periodicamente si manifesta nel film. ( )
  fortunae | Aug 18, 2019 |
Claudio Magris nella sua introduzione parla di un affresco minuzioso e puntuale di un secolo; e la mole di volume di Israel Joshua Singer, fratello maggiore del premio Nobel Isaac Bashevis, è quello; anzi parlando di affresco, utilizzerei il termine maestoso, un romanzo storico robusto e appassionante la cui lettura è talmente intensa da togliere il fiato. La storia dei due figli gemelli maschi di Reb Abraham Hirsh Ashkenazi, Simcha Meyer e Yakob Bunin parte da lontano; dai primi insediamenti ebrei a Lodz, dallo sviluppo dell’industria e degli affari in una città della Polonia; dal risentimento prima latente e poi sempre più acceso e intenso nei confronti degli ebrei; i caratteri opposti dei due fratelli fanno da contro altare alla storia della Polonia, sempre compressa tra le pressioni della Russia e della Germania. Singer racconta pennellando; o pennella raccontando; oltre settecento pagine di rara intensità in cui scorrono anni, decenni; dalla crisi tedesca del fine ottocento, alla rivoluzione bolscevica del 1905, dai primi progrom in Polonia, all’invasione tedesca, dalla prima guerra mondiale alla rivoluzione russa per terminare con la crisi valutaria dell’immediato dopoguerra. La rivalità tra i due fratelli si chiude con la carcerazione in Russia di Max, nuovo nome di Simcha Meyer e con la liberazione da parte del fratello che si chiude con la morte di quest’ultimo con un epilogo degno della tragedia greca. Un libro che si legge tutto di un fiato, devo dire che il fiato in questa calda estate è corto, la flebilità del respiro di papà è devastante. Un buon libro aiuta, il dolore si attenua a fronte del grande respiro della storia; e della migliore letteratura. ( )
  grandeghi | Oct 14, 2018 |
At high school I had a classmate who stated that with literature you can learn history, philosophy, sociology, psychology and any other social science much better than any manual. At that time I totally disagreed with this thought: I was all taken with my historical essays and did not leave much room for literature: history was taught in books that taught history. Then, in my life, the Russian writers came in, and I've been able to review my ideas a bit and I understood, though late, that literature can explain our world at least as much as it can be explained in a scientific essay.
Certainly not a big discovery, and I agree with that, but better to arrive late than not arriving at all.
The Ashkenazi brothers is just one of these books. The topics covered in this book are so vast that I do not even dare to start talking about it except to say it's a book that you have to read because you will get enriched and I intend to enrich yourself in the knowledge of history of the past century.
This book speaks of Judaism, of Jews, of Poland (and perhaps Singer, who died in 1944 in New York, would not be surprised to know that Auschwitz would be built in Poland), Lodz (as the Manchester of East Europe), capitalism and Communism; in short, tells us how the twentieth century was born.
And perhaps it would be fruitful to compare this book, which we could in some ways also call "Jewish Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism," with that of Weber: Protestantism in the West, Judaism in the East or perhaps it would be better call it Jewishness.
But at the same time, if Jews are the capitalists (not all of the capitalists are Jewish of course, never having Jews the monopoly of nothing), Jews are also (not all of course) the first socialists, those who question capitalism, the first defenders of the working class .
Finally, I would also like to point out the bitter understanding of the lack of acceptance. Both the Jewish capitalist, who thinks that the departure from being perceived as a Jew passes through the power of money, both the socialist who believes in a world of atheist brotherhood among workers, will have to confront the painful reality: the curse the hebrew, to be THE scapegoat: things go wrong and you do not know why? Do not worry, we can blame Jews for the Jews, it always works and everyone is willing to believe it. And if so, there is only the escape to a Promised Land, Palestine, where to build the new Lodz, but to renounce to be capitalists / communists, Poles, of Jewish faith.
And Hitler had not arrived yet. ( )
  eloelisa92 | Nov 30, 2017 |
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Israel Joshua Singerautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Rabinovitch, AnneTraductorautor principalalgunes edicionsconfirmat
Spire, Marie-BrunetteTraductorautor principalalgunes edicionsconfirmat
Zilberberg, PeretzNarradorautor principalalgunes edicionsconfirmat
Fonzi, BrunoTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Howe, IrvingIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Magris, ClaudioPròlegautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Samuel, MauriceTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat

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In the Polish city of Lodz, the Brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially by any means necessary. Slower-witted Jacob is strong, handsome, and charming but without great purpose in life. While Max is driven by ambition and greed to be more successful than his brother, Jacob is drawn to easy living and decadence. As waves of industrialism and capitalism flood the city, the brothers and their families are torn apart by the clashing impulses of old piety and new skepticism, traditional ways and burgeoning appetites, and the hatred that grows between faiths, citizens, and classes. Despite all attempts to control their destinies, the brothers are caught up by forces of history, love, and fate, which shape and, ultimately, break them. First published in 1936, The Brothers Ashkenazi quickly became a bestseller as a sprawling family saga. Breaking away from the introspective shtetl tales of classic nineteenth-century writers, I. J. Singer brought to Yiddish literature the multilayered plots, large casts of characters, and narrative sweep of the traditional European novel. Walking alongside such masters as Zola, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, I. J. Singer's pre-modernist social novel stands as a masterpiece of storytelling.

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