The Brothers Ashkenazi (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Israel Joshua Singer
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Brothers, Jews or Jewish life, Faustian bargains, Business or business people, Poland or Polish people, Judaism, Mills or millwork
- Locales: Warsaw, Poland, Lodz, Poland, Petrograd, Russia
Places Discussed
*Lodz (lewj). Industrial city in central Poland, about seventy-five miles southwest of Warsaw, in which the novel is set. The growth of the city from a sleepy village to the center of Poland’s textile industry is important to the novel. During the nineteenth century, the Russian government encouraged weavers in Germany and Moravia to come to Poland, where they were given free land, special conditions, and ready markets. The government’s goal was to establish an industry that could take advantage of Poland’s natural resources. As a consequence, many...
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