The outstanding writer and Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer dedicated his novel “The Muskat Family” to the memory of his older brother. The dedication underscores the continuity of the creative relay—after all, it was Israel Joshua Singer’s famous work “The Brothers Ashkenazi” that laid the foundations of the Jewish family novel. In “The Muskat Family,” we see the life of Warsaw Jews over several decades: we encounter a large family at a turning point, when, under the influence of circumstances, the centuries-old, well-oiled existence of Polish Jews begins to change—and we follow its life over the decades. The novel exists in two versions—Yiddish and English, the translation of which is offered to the reader.