Israel Joshua Singer: Novels: 1938 1944: East of Eden, The Family Carnovsky of a World That Is No More by Israel Joshua Singer Sale Books the book argues that this 9781479810031 the book argues that this "genealogical turn" should be understood as a consequence of Jewish society's dynamic encounter with its Arab Islamic milieu and constituted a selective adaptation to the importance of ancestry in the dominant cultural environment and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries graphically illustrated by the relationships among the characters Edited by Anita Norich