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Sholem Asch (1880-1957)

Sholem Asch

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.[1]



Memory

@ Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. [Sholem Asch, The Nazarene.]



[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholem_Asch