REFLECTION ON THE JEWISH IDENTITY

Excelllente "saga" Jewish, the small village in Eastern Europe to the United States, via Germany.
The Karnovski family leaves the shtetl, and will gradually be assimilated in Germany, over 3 generations, including through intermarriage.
Historically, Singer book a fresco entirely fair.
Psychologically, he analyzes with finesse and depth the problems of the identity of children born of mixed marriages, especially in Germany 30 years.
Finally, it describes all the social diversity of the Jewish world of Germany of the 30s, between poor immigrant from the East, the German rich notable, intellectual Book etc ... a whole different world that will be hit, ultimately, by the same fate.
The recites is conducted masterfully. Israel Joshua (who died early) in my opinion is much better than his brother Isaac Bashevis (the Nobel Prize).
I found the end very very hard.