[FTP-Nat'l Service Bureau] A String of Pearls, by Sholom Asch Los Angeles, CA.

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[FTP-Nat'l Service Bureau] A String of Pearls, by Sholom Asch Los Angeles, CA.

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Asch, Sholem, 1880-1957

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Sholem Asch (November 1, 1880 – July 10, 1957) was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language. Born in Kutno, Poland to a Hasidic family, Asch received a formal Jewish education. He moved to Warsaw in 1899 and met and was mentored by prominent Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz. His first book of stories, In a Shlekhter Tsayt (In a Bad Time), was published in 1902 and he rose to prominence. He relocated to the United States in 1914. Asch became increasingly active in publi...