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Sholem Asch

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Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language (1880-1957)

United StatesWritersLived 1880 to 1957 · aged 76
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Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.

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Sholem Asch as a young manSholem Asch as a young manAsch (left) with literary critic Shmuel Niger and Niger's brother, labor leader Baruch Charney Vladeck c. 1920sAsch (left) with literary critic Shmuel Niger and Niger's brother, labor leader Baruch Charney Vladeck c. 1920s

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1947Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

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Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States. A prolific and widely translated writer, Asch wrote about Jewish life in Eastern Europe and America, producing novels, short stories, and plays that reached international audiences. Asch initially wrote in Hebrew, but, on the advice of the Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz, he subsequently decided to write only in Yiddish, becoming a significant cultural figure in the Yiddishist movement.

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United States
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1880 to 1957 · aged 76
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23 languages

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