Sholem Asch finally reconsidered.(Book Review)

Midstream | July 1, 2005| | Copyright

Sholem Asch Reconsidered, Nanette Stahl, ed. New Haven, CT: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2004. xii+303 pp.

Sholem Asch himself was, as the title of his English language biography suggests, indisputably among the most controversial of Yiddish writers. As a young playwright in his twenties, he scandalized audiences and sparked quarrels among critics with his 1907 play God of Vengeance, set in a brothel and featuring scenes of lesbian seduction. Over three decades later, the international celebrity would publish three sympathetic novels about the early ...

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