Portrait of Yiddish novelist Sholem Asch.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 80714

Date: Circa 1940
Locale: United States
Photo Designation: PERSONALITIES: JEWS -- Names (A)
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Biography: Sholem Asch (1880-1957) was a popular and prolific Yiddish writer whose works were translated into several languages. Asch was born in Kutno, Poland, where he received a traditional Jewish upbringing. He started writing as a youth, first in Hebrew and later in Yiddish, under the influence of I.L. Peretz. He wrote both psychological and socio-nationalistic plays and novels, as well as stories of Jewish shtetl life. During World War I Asch lived in the U.S., but he returned to Europe immediately afterwards, living first in Poland and then in France. In 1938 he moved back to the U.S., where he later became an effective board member of the Fund for Jewish Refugee Writers.
Keyword: ASCH, SCHOLEM
BOOK BURNING (AUTHORS)
CLOSE-UPS
JEWS (POLISH)
WRITERS/INTELLECTUALS
Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain
: Record last modified: 2018-02-12 00:00:00
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