# Sholem Asch
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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.
== Life and work ==
Asch was born Szalom Asz in Kutno, Congress Poland to Moszek Asz (1825, Gąbin – 1905, Kutno), a cattle-dealer and innkeeper, and Frajda Malka, née Widawska (born 1850, Łęczyca). Frajda was Moszek's second wife; his first wife Rude Shmit died in 1873, leaving him with either six or seven children (the exact number is unknown).
The Nazarene | Sholem Asch | Books in Sound
Season 3 Episode 26
"The Nazarene" is a historical novel written by Sholem Asch and published in 1939. The book follows the life of Jesus Christ, offering a fictionalized account of his experiences and teachings. Asch's work explores the religious, social, and political context of Jesus' time, p...
Writing Natural Dialogue, Getting Back to Our Roots, and Why Theatre? - Playwright's Spotlight with Steve Fife
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This week playwright Steve Fife sat in-studio in the Playwright's Spotlight. It was a reflective conversation of his experience in New York and on Broadway in the seventies, his dislike of eighties, and the joyous return in the nineties. We discuss rewriting and updating past wor...
Episode 0376: Adapted for a Staged Reading: Sholem Asch’s Shabbtai Tsvi
Translator and adapter Weaver sits down with "The Shmooze" to talk about the drama group Theater Between Addresses and its upcoming immersive, staged reading of Sholem Asch’s "Shabbtai Tsvi," which Weaver translated and adapted. Never before performed in its entirety, the play shows the meteoric ...
Tłomackie 13
The worldwide embassy for Yiddish literature.
In the Jewish cultural memory, 13 Tłomackie Street is the address of the worldwide embassy for Yiddish literature, a kind of British Council or Goethe Institute, as well as the Ministry of Diasporic Culture and the Cultural Parliament in one.
This ‘...
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The Nazi Museum of an Extinct Race
The 1,564 sacred Scrolls which came to Westminster Synagogue on February 7, 1964, had been gathered together in Prague, from the desolated synagogues of Bohemia and Moravia, by the Nazi official in charge of the Czech 'Protectorate.' Much more synagogue booty, books, pictures, embroidered vestmen...
Gratitude and Grit: Leading Through Uncertainty (Holiday theme)
Episode 25 - Chaplain Brian Webb: "Gratitude and Grit: Leading Through Uncertainty"
What if the weight you're carrying isn't crushing you—it's preparing you? When was the last time you felt genuinely grateful for the impossible burdens leadership demands of you?
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Episode 57: Sholem Asch
In this episode, we discuss the life and legacy of Sholem Asch. Born in Poland to an Orthodox Jewish family, Asch was a novelist, playwright, and essayist acclaimed by both critics and readers alike. He was one of the first Yiddish writers to attract a wide readership in translation and was one o...
Episode 57: Sholem Asch
In this episode, we discuss the life and legacy of Sholem Asch. Born in Poland to an Orthodox Jewish family, Asch was a novelist, playwright, and essayist acclaimed by both critics and readers alike. He was one of the first Yiddish writers to attract a wide readership in translation and was one o...
Yiddishland – David Mazower
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How might we be inspired by a worldwide community of Yiddish-speaking Jews, whose cultural identity was broadly internationalist?
David Mazower is the author of Yiddish: A Global Culture, which accompanies a...
