Sholem Asch

1880 - 1957

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: short story, novel, drama

country of citizenship: United States of America, Poland, Israel, Russian Empire

native language: Yiddish

languages spoken, written or signed: Yiddish

occupation: writer, novelist

award received: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

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. Source: Wikipedia (en)