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In the Polish city of Lodz, the Brothers Ashkenazi was raised very in a different way in skill and in personality. Utmost, the firstborn, is fiercely wise and conniving, determined to succeed financially at all necessary. Slower-witted Jacob is strong, attractive, and charming but without great purpose in life. While Utmost is powered by ambition and greed to become more successful than his brother, Jacob is drawn to easy living and decadence. As waves of industrialism and capitalism flood the town, the brothers and their families are torn aside by the clashing impulses of old piety and new skepticism, traditional ways and burgeoning appetites, and the hatred that expands between faiths, people, and classes. Despite all efforts to control their destinies, the brothers are caught up by forces of history, love, and fate, which form and, in the long run, break them. First released in 1936, The Brothers Ashkenazi quickly became a best-seller as a sprawling family saga. Breaking away from the introspective shtetl tales of traditional 19th-century freelance writers, I. J. Singer brought to Yiddish literature the multilayered plots, large casts of characters, and narrative sweep of the traditional European book. Walking alongside such masters as Zola, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, I. J. Singer's pre-modernist interpersonal book stands as a masterpiece of storytelling. Israel Joshua Singer (1893-1944)was created in Bilgoraj, Poland, the kid of an rabbi. He added to Yiddish newspapers in Warsaw and Kiev, where his short account, "Pearls," was released, which brought him immediate popularity. He emerged to the United States in 1934, and within two years The Brothers Ashkenazi was released, a work that had not been only an instantaneous success but was also destined to become traditional in its time.
