Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Asch (1 January 1880, Kutno - 10 July 1957, London) was a Polish-born American novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language. Asch was born in Kutno, Poland, of Jewish heritage. He was one of ten children of a cattle-dealer and innkeeper, and received a traditional Jewish education; as a young man he followed that with a more liberal education obtained at Wloclawek, … Wikipedia
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