Moses~Sholem Asch~1951~First Edition~Very Good~Rare~Vintage~Free Shipping

Moses~Sholem Asch~1951~First Edition~Very Good~Rare~Vintage~Free Shipping.

This vintage book is in very good to fine condition. One inscription on inside first page. Tight binding. Cover very good with a nice sheen to it. Rare find at a great price.

Sholem Asch (Yiddish: שלום אַש‎, Polish: Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.

Asch was a celebrated writer in his own lifetime. In 1920, in honor of his 40th birthday, a committee headed by Judah L. Magnes published a 12-volume set of his collected works. In 1932 he was awarded the Polish Republic’s Polonia Restituta decoration and was elected honorary president of the Yiddish PEN Club. -From Wikipedia

“A monumental achievement and one into which Sholem Asch has poured the scholarship which endows remote Biblical times with an aliveness and a vitality that transforms the Pentateuch (the five books of Moses), as The Nazarene and Mary and The Apostle transformed the Gospels and Acts into human vital stories, written for our times. His is a dual function in Moses for not only has he made the epoch living drama but he has given the central characters, the basic issues and the conflicts an emotional reality that carries the reader along. And in restating the laws which have governed the Jews from Moses down, he has evidenced again the power of their moral and spiritual base which has withstood all the efforts of mankind to destroy them. At times the implacable harshness rouses the reader as it roused the new-made freedmen. At other times the justice — in terms of that faraway era — seems essentially timeless.” -From Kirkus reviews

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