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**The Brothers Ashkenazi** (1936) is a novel by *Israel Joshua Singer*. Written in Yiddish, it first appeared serially in the Jewish daily Forward between 1934 and 1935, after Singer had left Poland and moved to New York.
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Classical in form, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Israel Joshua Singer
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 611
- Publisher
- Allison and Busby, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Perhift, Peretz Hirshbein Folk Theatre
- Editions
- 42
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, dan, German
- ISBN
- 9781590514023
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About Israel Joshua Singer · 1893–1944
Polish American Yiddish novelist and translator
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