Sholem Asch
Author
Language
English
Description
This novel takes you a century back in time to live among Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the United States, only a few years before the appalling events of the great depression and the holocaust.
Sholom Asch originally wrote it in Yiddish, masterfully depicting the everyday-lives of Jewish immigrants in America, their traditions, values, dialect, and even religious rituals and business activities. Reading this novel gives insight on how Jews...
2) Sholem Asch
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The first in a playwright series by White Goat Press, Sholem Asch: Underworld Trilogy includes three of Asch's Yiddish dramas—taking place in the world of the criminals and the literal underworld—that had successful and influential debuts on the Yiddish stage in the 1920s.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The unforgettable saga of two immigrant families and the forbidden love that could not keep them apart. "East River" is a novel by Sholem Asch, first published in 1946, and a New York Times bestseller of that year. Unlike the denser Jewish pockets of the lower East Side of New York, East 48th Street by the river was, even at the beginning of the twentieth century, an international neighborhood made up of Orthodox Jews, Catholic Irish, nostalgic Poles,...