God of Vengeance View By Sholem Asch
| Title | : | God of Vengeance |
| Author | : | Sholem Asch |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 108 pages |
| ISBN | : | 1559362332 |
Diabolical ingenuity and rueful tenderness a playwright with a particularly pungent and intelligent vision Ben Brantley, New York Times A vivid panorama of a Lower East Side street scene crammed with grimy tenements, riotous store fronts and packed pushcarts epic theatre a fascinating new adaptation of Sholom Asch s 1906 drama Malcolm Johnson, Hartford CourantJack C Diabolical ingenuity and rueful tenderness a playwright with a particularly pungent and intelligent vision Ben Brantley, New York Times A vivid panorama of a Lower East Side street scene crammed with grimy tenements, riotous store fronts and packed pushcarts epic theatre a fascinating new adaptation of Sholom Asch s 1906 drama Malcolm Johnson, Hartford CourantJack Chapman runs a brothel on the first floor of his tenement and while he is prosperous, he is not virtuous For his daughter Rivkele, however, Jack aspires for something respectability through her marriage to a religious scholar But Rivkele s tender love affair with Manke, one of Jack s prostitutes, threatens to destroy the upcoming marriage, and with it, Jack s dream of redemption Pulitzer Prize winning author Donald Margulies transforms Sholom Asch s classic mortality tale into a work of spellbinding power.Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends The play received numerous awards, including the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, the Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination, and has been produced all over the United States and around the world In addition to his adaptation of God of Vengeance, his many plays include Collected Stories, The Country House, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment, The Loman Family Picnic, What s Wrong with This Picture and Time Stands Still Mr Margulies currently lives with his wife and their son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University
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Sholem Asch born Szulim Asz Yiddish , also written Shalom Asch 1 November, 1880, Kutno July 10, 1957, London was a Polish born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language.Asch was one of ten children of Moszek Asz 1825 Gabin 1905 Kutno , a cattle dealer and innkeeper, and Frajda Malka, nee Widawska 1850 czyca , and received a traditional Jewish educa Sholem Asch born Szulim Asz Yiddish , also written Shalom Asch 1 November, 1880, Kutno July 10, 1957, London was a Polish born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language.Asch was one of ten children of Moszek Asz 1825 Gabin 1905 Kutno , a cattle dealer and innkeeper, and Frajda Malka, nee Widawska 1850 czyca , and received a traditional Jewish education as a young man he followed that with a liberal education obtained at W oc awek, where he supported himself as a letter writer for the illiterate Jewish townspeople From there he moved to Warsaw, where he met and married Mathilde Shapiro, the daughter of the Polish Jewish writer, M.M Shapiro Influenced by the Haskalah Jewish Enlightenment , initially Asch wrote in Hebrew, but I.L Peretz convinced him to switch to Yiddish.He traveled to Palestine in 1908 and the U.S in 1910 He sat out World War I in the U.S where he became a naturalized citizen in 1920 He returned to Poland He later moved to France, visited Palestine again in 1936, and settled in the U.S in 1938.His Kiddush ha Shem 1919 is one of the earliest historical novels in modern Yiddish literature, about the antisemitic Chmielnicki Uprising in mid 17th century Ukraine and Poland When his 1907 drama, God of Vengeance which is set in a brothel and whose plot features a lesbian relationship was performed on Broadway in 1923, the entire cast was arrested and successfully prosecuted on obscenity charges, despite the fact that the play was sufficiently highly esteemed in Europe to have already been translated into German, Russian, Polish, Hebrew, Italian, Czech and Norwegian His 1929 31 trilogy, Farn Mabul Before the Flood, translated as Three Cities describes early 20th century Jewish life in St Petersburg, Warsaw, and Moscow His Bayrn Opgrunt 1937, translated as The Precipice , is set in Germany during the hyperinflation of the 1920s Dos Gezang fun Tol The Song of the Valley is about the halutzim Jewish Zionist pioneers in Palestine , and reflects his 1936 visit to that region.A celebrated writer in his own lifetime, a 12 volume set of his collected works was published in the early 1920s in 1932 he was awarded the Polish Republic s Polonia Restituta decoration and was elected honorary president of the Yiddish PEN Club However, he was later to offend Jewish sensibilities with his 1939 1949 trilogy, The Nazarene, The Apostle, and Mary, which dealt with New Testament subjects The Forward, New York s leading Yiddish language newspaper, not only dropped him as a writer, but also openly attacked him for promoting Christianity.Asch spent most his last two years in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, Israel although he died in London His house in Bat Yam is now the Sholem Asch Museum The bulk of his library, containing rare Yiddish books and manuscripts, including the manuscripts of some of his own works, is held at Yale University 
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Diabolical ingenuity and rueful tenderness a playwright with a particularly pungent and intelligent vision Ben Brantley, New York Times A vivid
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