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Momenṭen : fun di frayhayṭs ṭeg / Sholem Ash.,מאמענטען פון: די פרייהייטם־טענ, דרוק פון י. פיטער. 1909 [Leather Bound]

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This edition features a leather binding on the spine and corners, adorned with gold leaf printing on the rounded spine. Additional customizations are available upon request, such as full leather binding, gold screen printing on the cover, colored leather options, or custom book colors. Reprinted in 2022 from the original edition published many years ago [1909], this book is presented in black and white with a sewn binding to ensure durability. It is printed on high-quality, acid-free, natural shade paper, resized to meet current standards, and professionally processed to maintain the integrity of the original content. Given the age of the original texts, each page has been meticulously processed to enhance readability. However, some pages may still have minor issues such as blurring, missing text, or black spots. If the original was part of a multi-volume set, please note that this reprint is a single volume. We hope you understand these limitations and appreciate our efforts to preserve this valuable piece of literary history. We believe this book will be of great interest to readers keen on exploring our rich cultural heritage and are pleased to bring it back to the shelves. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Yiddish, 50. Full leather binding is available for an additional $25 beyond the price of the standard leather-bound edition. {Folio edition also available.} Complete Momenṭen : fun di frayhayṭs ṭeg / Sholem Ash.,מאמענטען פון: די פרייהייטם־טענ, דרוק פון י. פיטער. 1909 [Leather Bound] by Asch, Sholem,, אש, שלום.

50 pages, Leather Bound

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Sholem Asch

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Polish-American writer Sholem Asch (also written Shalom Ash, Yiddish: שלום אַש, Polish: Szalom Asz) sought to reconcile Judaism and Christianity in his controversial novels, such as The Nazarene (1939).

Sholem Asch composed dramas and essays in the language.

Frajda Malka bore Asch and nine other children to Moszek Asz, a cattle-dealer and innkeeper. Asch received tradition and as a young man followed, obtained a more liberal education at Włocławek, and supported with letters for the illiterate townspeople. He moved to Warsaw and met and married Mathilde Shapiro, the daughter of Menahem Mendel Shapiro. The Haskalah or Hebrew enlightenment initially influenced Asch, but Isaac Leib Peretz convinced him to switch.

Plot of God of Vengeance , his drama of 1907 features a lesbian relationship in a brothel.

He traveled to Palestine in 1908 and to the United States in 1910.

His Kiddush ha-Shem in 1919 in the earliest historical modern literature concerns the anti-Semitic uprising of Khmelnytsky in mid-17th century Ukraine.

He sat out World War I in the United States and a naturalized as a citizen in 1920. He returned.


People celebrated a 12-volume set of his collected works, published in his own lifetime in the early 1920s.

When people performed God of Vengeance , the highly esteemed play, on Broadway in 1923, authorities arrested and successfully prosecuted the entire cast on obscenity charges despite the fact that people in Europe already translated it into German, Russian, Hebrew, Italian, Czech, and Norwegian.

Farn Mabul ( Before the Flood , translated as Three Cities ), his trilogy of 1929 to 1931, describes early 20th century life in Saint Petersburg, Warsaw, and Moscow.

In 1932, the republic awarded the decoration of Polonia Restituta, and the club of poets, essayists, and novelists (PEN) elected him honorary president.

He later moved to France and visited Palestine again in 1936. Dos Gezang fun Tol ( The Song of the Valley ) about the halutzim or Zionist pioneers in Palestine reflects his visit of 1936 to that region.

He set his Bayrn Opgrunt (1937), translated as The Precipice , in Germany during the hyperinflation of the 1920s.

He settled in the United States in 1938.

He, however, later offended sensibilities with The Apostle , and Mary , parts of his trilogy, which in 1939 to 1949 dealt with subjects of New Testament. The Forward , leading language newspaper of New York, dropped him and openly attacked him for promotion.

Asch spent most his last two years in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, Israel but died in London. His house in Bat Yam now houses his namesake museum. Yale University holds the bulk of his library, which contains rare books and manuscripts, including some of his own works.

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