Sholem Asch (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Sholem Asch (ahsh) was the most important novelist writing in Yiddish in the early twentieth century. He was born in 1880 in Kutno, Poland, to Moishe Asch, a businessman, and his wife, Malka Asch. The eleventh of fifteen children, he was educated in the local Hebrew school and later taught Hebrew. In 1896 his first literary sketches, written in Hebrew, were rejected by a publisher to whom he had submitted them.
In 1899 Asch moved to Warsaw, where he became the protégé of the famous writer I. L. Peretz. Following Peretz’s advice, Asch began to write in Yiddish and was soon...
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