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NameThe Family Carnovsky
Language
AuthorI. J. Singer
GenreNovel
Kind
Reason
Ratingvery good
Statusfinished
Status Date31 October 2025
CommentNovel about several generations of a Jewish family which originates in Poland, spends fifty years in Berlin, and then moves to New York after the Nazis take over Germany.
Quote"Life is a terrible prankster, Reb Carnovsky. It loves to play tricks on people. German Jews wanted to be Jews in the house and gentiles in the street but life turned this ambition completely topsy-turvey. The fact is that they have become gentiles in the house and Jews in the street." p. 160.