Dec 16, 2009
Although Sholem Asch is remembered chiefly as a novelist, much of his early work consists of dramas. When Der Got fun Nekome (1907; The God of Vengeance, 1918) was performed on Yiddish stages in Russia and Poland, Max Reinhardt, who understood Yiddish, decided to produce it at the Deutsche Theater. This was the first time that a Yiddish work had appeared in the international literature. This play, in which a brothel owner purchases a Torah to place in his daughter’s room, hoping it will protect her from the impurities in the apartment below,...
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