Sholem asch biography of albert einstein
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Sholem Asch Reconsidered
Eighty years ago, as Yiddish writer and playwright Sholem Asch celebrated his 50th birthday in 1930, he seemed to be riding on top of the world. His newest book, Fam Mabul, was a critical and popular success among Yiddish readers– it would soon become vastly more popular in its English translation as Three Cities — and his various plays were doing well both in Poland and the United States. In birthday celebrations in Paris, Warsaw, Vienna and other cities, he was toasted by the likes of Franz Werfel, Stefan Zweig and other famous friends, while Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann cabled their congratulations.
Asch, it was said, was the first Yiddish writer able to support himself and his family solely through his literary earnings. He always traveled first-class, was a regular contributor to the New York Daily Forverts, and was arguably the most celebrated and popular Yiddish writer of his day. Three Cities was so highly regarded that in 1933 As
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Asch, Sholem, 1880-1957
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Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
People's Relief Committee for Jewish War Sufferers Records
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Identifier: I-13
The records of the People's Relief Committee for Jewish War Sufferers consist of correspondence with Jewish communities and relief organizations in Europe, Palestine, Cuba, South America, the United States, and Canada; as well as scrapbooks containing U.S. and Canadian Yiddish and English newspaper clippings and printed promotional literature pertaining to the fundraising activities of the People's Relief Committee in North America and abroad.
Dates: 1915-1924
Found in: American Jewish Historical Society
Harriet Lowenstein Goldstein papers
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Identifier: P-31
This collection contains materials related to the relief activities of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in europe in 1919. These include cables and other
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If a movie was ever made about the early years of Folkways Records, someone would have to play Albert Einstein.
It would only be a cameo and its true importance is hard to assess, but nevertheless there is an anecdote that links the father of modern physics with the label that brought us Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the New Lost City Ramblers.
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My research is in its early stages. But it keeps getting clearer and clearer to me that Folkways Records wasn’t just a label that released folk records. It has been a significant force in shaping the way music listeners in the United States and beyond think about their culture and their past.
For example, Woody Guthrie has sometimes seemed to me, and others, as some kind of mythical legendary superfolk. Much of the reason is that Pete Seeger consciously set out to make sure he was remembered this way. But it seems very doubtful that either Pete or Woody would have had the careers they had without