Columbia University Players’ “Indecent” follows Sholem Asch (Jamie Treatman-Clark, CC ’27), a young playwright who authored the play “The God of Vengeance” in 1906, which follows a love affair between ...

Asch and Vogel want to show that even in these hidden depths, there is love, faith, and a neshama — a Jewish soul. Sholem Asch, author of the 1923 play The God of Vengeance . Image by ...

Sholem Asch, noted Jewish writer, today announced that he has prohibited the production of his play the “God of Vengeance” in any language in the United States and in other countries.

It explores the journey of Sholem Asch’s controversial 1906 Yiddish drama “God of Vengeance” from early success all over Europe to its 1923 English-language Broadway premiere that got the ...

The Lawgiver MOSES (505 pp.)—Sholem Asch—Putnam ($3.75).As a boy in Kutno, Poland, Sholem Asch used to pester his mother with the question: "Why has God divided mankind into Jew and ...

In February 1923, Polish-Jewish playwright Sholem Asch’s controversial Yiddish play “God of Vengeance” opened on Broadway, attracting criticism for portraying prostitution, queer ...

A scene from Sholem Asch’s “The God of Vengeance,” the play that Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” is about. Paula Vogel plays can be bursting with wildly different elements.

The show retells events surrounding another play, Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” whose 1923 Broadway production led to arrests of its producer and cast on obscenity charges.