Uncle Moses

This novel takes you a century back in time to live among Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the United States only a few years before the appalling events of the great depression and the holocaust.Sholom Asch originally wrote it in Yiddish masterfully depicting the everyday-lives of Jewish immigrants in America their traditions values dialect and even religious rituals and business activities. Reading this novel gives insight on how Jews blended into society pre-holocaust from an insiders perspective.Its a story of love and hate forced marriage the earliest traces of feminism and the painful truth of why money cant buy happiness. It was later adapted into a movie with the same name considered to be a precious gem of Jewish culture.He had resolved firmly upon marrying Masha - the eighteen-year-old maiden whose education he had paid for.She considered herself a sacrifice to the welfare of her parents her sisters her relatives and all the townsfolk.