The Family Moskat Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer Great novel of The Warsaw Ghetto. The vanished civilization of the Eastern European Jews is the subject ofthis magnificent modern novel. Ostensibly, it is the story of the patriarchal Meshulum Moskat and his numerous progeny and the unworldly Asa Heshel Bannet, fighting, quarreling, loving, scheming in the teeming ghetto of Warsaw, but its real ... more »hero is the civilization that vanished into the gas chambers over twenty years ago.« less