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A Short Biography of Sholem Asch

Author Name:

Sholem Asch

Born As:

Sholem Asch

Other Names:

Sholem Asch

Born:

1 Nov 1880

Died:

10 Jul 1957




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Yiddish novelist and playwright                          
Selected 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.                          
                          
                          
Also known as Shalom Asch