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CONTENTS v Dedication vii Foreword Vincent Giroud ix Editor's Preface Nanette Stahl Part One:Asch the Man 3 Sholem Asch: Images of a Life David Mazower Part Two: Asch, the Yiddish Theater, and GOD OF VENGEANCE 35 The Brothel as Symbolic Space in Yiddish Drama Joel Berkowitz 51 Staging Tradition: Piety and Scandal in God of Vengeance Naomi Seidman 63 God of Vengeance: The 1907 Controversy over Art and Morality Nina Warnke Part Three: The European Fiction 81 Russia between Myth and Reality: From Meri to Three Cities Mikhail Krutikov 106 Power, Powerlessness, and the Jewish Nation in Sholem Asch's Af kidesh haShem Ellen Kellman 121 The City as Cadre and Character in Sholem Asch's Dray Shtet Seth L. Wolitz Part Four: Asch in America 147 God Bless America: Of and Around Sholem Asch's East River Dan Miron 217 The Broken Fortress: The Jewish Family in America in the Novels of Sholem Asch Avraham Novershtern 239 Found in America: Sholem Asch and I. B. Singer David G. Roskies Part Five: The Christological Novels 251 Sholem Asch and the Christian Question Anita Norich 266 Reactions of the Yiddish Press to The Nazarene by Sholem Asch Hannah Berliner Fischthal 279 Sholem Asch's True Christians: The Jews as a People of Christs Matthew Hoffman 289 Bibliography of Asch in English 295 Contributors 297 Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Asch, Sholem, 1880-1957 Criticism and interpretation Congresses