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Sholem Asch (Yiddish: שלום אַש, Polish: Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.
Jul 6, 2024 · Sholem Asch (born November 1, 1880, Kutno, Poland, Russian Empire—died July 10, 1957, London, England) was a Polish-born American novelist and playwright, the most controversial and one of the most widely known writers in modern Yiddish literature.
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Sholem Asch was a Yiddish dramatist and novelist. He depicted small town Jewish life and socialist themes. His work was burned in Nazi Germany in 1933.
Jul 12, 2020 · Yiddish Book Center bibliographer and editorial director, David Mazower, is Sholem Asch's great-grandson. Here he introduces a text he recently saw for the first time—the memorial tribute to Asch delivered by Rabbi Harold Reinhart at Westminster Synagogue on July 14, 1957.
Author. (1880–1957), Yiddish novelist and playwright. Born in Kutno, Russian Poland, Sholem Asch was the youngest of his Hasidic parents’ 10 children. Traditionally educated and a talented student, he began teaching himself German with the aid of Moses Mendelssohn’s translation of the Bible.
In 1938, the year that Chagall worked on White Crucifixion and that Asch began writing The Nazarene, the situation for European Jews was becoming increasingly desperate. Asch had already undertaken activist work against the Nazis and in support of Jewish refugees (Mazower 2004, 26– 27).
This chapter is devoted to the writer Sholem Asch, arguably the Yiddish writer most aligned with the normative demands of world literature—as market, network, and idealized transnational republic.
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