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Sholem Asch


Born
in Kutno, congress Poland, Russian empire
November 01, 1880

Died
July 10, 1957


Polish-American writer Sholem Asch (also written Shalom Ash, Yiddish: שלום אַש, Polish: Szalom Asz) sought to reconcile Judaism and Christianity in his controversial novels, such as The Nazarene (1939). Sholem Asch composed dramas and essays in the Yiddish language.

Frajda Malka bore Asch and nine other children to Moszek Asz, a cattle-dealer and innkeeper. Asch received a traditional Hasidic eduction and later obtained a more liberal education at Włocławek, where he supported himself by writing letters for the illiterate townspeople. He moved to Warsaw and met and married Mathilde Shapiro, the daughter of Menahem Mendel Shapiro.

The Haskalah or Hebrew enlightenment initially influenced Asch. His earliest writing was in Hebrew, but Isaac ...more

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The God of Vengeance
3.89 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1907 — 88 editions
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The Nazarene
4.18 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1939
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The Apostle
4.18 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1939 — 39 editions
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Mary
4.06 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1949 — 24 editions
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East River
4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1946 — 23 editions
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Moses
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4.39 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1951 — 16 editions
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Mottke, the Thief
4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1916 — 43 editions
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Pétersbourg
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3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1929 — 9 editions
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Kiddush Ha-Shem: An Epic of...
3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1919 — 18 editions
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Three Cities
4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1931 — 14 editions
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“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
― Sholem Asch
tags: existence, forgetting, remembering
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“I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.”
― Sholem Asch
tags: books, knowledge, reading
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“Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.”
― Sholem Asch
tags: writing
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