Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957), also known as Shalom Asch, was a Polish-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language. 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article describes some ethnic, historic, and cultural aspects of the Jewish identity; for a consideration of the Jewish religion, refer to the article Judaism. ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ...

Born in Kutno, Poland, one of ten children of a cattle-dealer and innkeeper, he received a traditional Jewish education; as a young man he followed that with a more liberal education obtained at Wloclawek, where he supported himself as a letter writer for the illiterate Jewish townspeople. From there he moved to Warsaw, where he met and married Mathilde Shapiro, the daughter of the Polish-Jewish writer, M.M. Shapiro. Influenced by the haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), initially Asch wrote in Hebrew, but I.L. Peretz convinced him to switch to Yiddish. Kutno is a town in central Poland with 51,000 inhabitants (1995). ... The term liberal education has its origins in the medieval concept of the liberal arts , but now tends to be mainly associated with the application of Enlightenment liberalism. ... Włocławek (pronounce: [vȗoʦwavek]) is a town in central Poland on the Vistula river, with population of approximately 123 000. ... Warsaw (Polish: , (?), in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto StoÅ‚eczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ... Haskalah (Hebrew: השכלה; enlightenment, intellect, from sekhel, common sense), the Jewish Enlightenment, was a movement among European Jews in the late 18th century that advocated adopting enlightenment values, pressing for better integration into European society, and increasing education in secular studies, Hebrew, and Jewish history. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית or עברית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... Isaac Leib Peretz (May 18, 1852–1915), a. ...

He traveled to Palestine in 1908 and the U.S. in 1910. He sat out World War I in the U.S. where he became a naturalized citizen in 1920. He returned to Poland. He later moved to France, visited Palestine again in 1936, and settled in the U.S. in 1938. Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire French Empire Italy Russian Empire Kingdom of Serbia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria German Empire Ottoman Empire Commanders Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Ferdinand Foch Nikolay II Nikolay Yudenich Radomir Putnik Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Reinhard Scheer Franz Josef I Oskar... Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

His Kiddush ha-Shem (1919) is one of the earliest historical novels in modern Yiddish literature, about the antisemitic Chmielnicki Uprising in mid-17th century Ukraine and Poland. When his 1907 drama God of Vengeance — which is set in a brothel and whose plot features a lesbian relationship — was performed on Broadway in 1923, the entire cast was arrested and successfully prosecuted on obscenity charges, despite the fact that the play was enough of a standard in Europe that it had already been translated into German, Russian, Polish, Hebrew, Italian, Czech and Norwegian. His 1929–31 trilogy Farn Mabul (Before the Flood, translated as Three Cities) describes early 20th century Jewish life in St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Moscow. His Bayrn Opgrunt (1937, translated as The Precipice) is set in Germany during the hyperinflation of the 1920s. Dos Gezang fun Tol (The Song of the Valley) is about the halutzim (Jewish-Zionist pioneers in Palestine), and reflects his 1936 visit to that region. A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author. ... Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... Chmielnicki Uprising or Chmielnicki Rebellion is the name of a civil war in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the years 1648–1654. ... It has been suggested that Mega-brothel be merged into this article or section. ... A lesbian is a female who is aesthetically, sexually, or romantically attracted to other females. ... Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... Certain figures in this article use scientific notation for readability. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Social issues of the 1920s. ... Pioneer may refer to: Woodsman, one who makes his living in the wilderness through trapping, hunting, logging, and/or prospecting Settler, one who has travelled from his or her homeland by choice to live in a new land or colony Mormon Pioneer, a members of the Church of Jesus Christ...

A celebrated writer in his own lifetime, a 12-volume set of his collected works were published in the early 1920s, and in 1932 he was awarded the Polish Republic's Polonia Restituta decoration and was elected honorary president of the Yiddish PEN Club. However, he was later to offend Jewish sensibilities with his 1939–1949 trilogy The Nazarene, The Apostle, and Mary, which dealt with New Testament subjects. The Forward, New York's leading Yiddish-language newspaper, not only dropped him as a writer, but also openly attacked him for promoting Christianity. John 21:1 Jesus Appears to His Disciples--Alessandro Mantovani: the Vatican, Rome. ... The Forward is a Jewish-American newspaper published in New York. ... Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on Jesus of Nazareth, and on his life and teachings as presented in the New Testament. ...

Asch spent most of his last years in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, Israel (although he died in London). His house in Bat Yam is now the Sholem Asch Museum. The bulk of his library, containing rare Yiddish books and manuscripts, including the manuscripts of some of his own works, is at Yale University. Bat Yam (בת ים) is a city in Israel, on the central coastal strip, just south of Tel Aviv, and part of the metropolis known as Gush Dan, in the Tel Aviv District. ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom. ... Yale redirects here. ...

His son, Moses "Moe" Asch was the founder and head of Folkways Records. Moses (Moe) Asch was the founder of Folkways Records and a key figure in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. ... Folkways Records is a record label founded by Moses Asch. ...

Works

• "A Shtetl" ("The Village"), 1904 or earlier. Story.
• Mitn Shtrom (With the Stream), 1904 novel and play
• Got fun Nekomeh (God of Vengeance), 1907, play
• Reb Shloyme Nogid, 1913, novel
• Mary, 1917, play
• Der Veg tsu Zikh (The Way to Oneself), 1917, play
• Motke Ganev (Motke the Thief), 1917, play
• Onkl Mozes, 1918 (translated into English 1938), play
• Kiddush ha-Shem, 1919 (translated into English 1926), novel
• Di Muter, (The Mother), 1919 (translated into English 1930)
• Di Kishufmakherin fun Kastilien (The Witch of Castile), 1921
• Urteyl (Death Sentence), 1924
• Khaym Lederers Tsurikkumen (The Return of Khaym Lederer), 1927
• Farn Mabul trilogy (Before the Flood) 1929-31, translated as Three Cities, 1933
• Gots Gefangene (God's Captives), 1933
• Der Thilim Yid, 1934, translated as Salvation
• The War Goes On, 1935
• Bayrn Opgrunt, 1937, translated as The Precipice
• Three Novels, 1938
• Dos Gezang fun Tol (The Song of the Valley), 1938 (translated into English, 1939)
• The Nazarene, 1939, novel
• Children of Abraham, 1942, short stories
• The Apostle, 1943, novel
• One Destiny, 1945
• East River, 1946
• Tales of My People, 1948, short stories
• Mary, 1949, novel, unrelated to his earlier work of the same name
• Salvation, 1951
• Moses, 1951, novel
• A Passage in the Night, 1953
• The Prophet, 1955

References

• —, Sholem Asch, on the site of the Yale University Library, Judaica Collection.
• Bell, June D., "Sholem Asch's Yiddish drama God of Vengeance(1907)" on the All About Jewish Theater site.
• The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Asch, Sholem
• Umansky, Ellen, "Asch's Passion" on Nextbook, mostly about his controversial trilogy that began with The Nazarene

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