East River

Name: East River
Author: Sholem Asch

by Sholem Asch

Novel depicting life among Jewish immigrant communities on New York's East River

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Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch was a major Yiddish writer who also wrote English-language novels about Biblical figures and immigrant Jewish life in America. The Nazarene and East River brought Yiddish literary culture into English.

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