Word: asch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best-seller on U.S. fiction lists last week was a religious book, The Apostle-Sholem Asch's dramatic portrayal of the life of one of the greatest Christian leaders, Paul of Tarsus...
...Apostle (Putnam; $3), famed Polish-born Novelist Sholem Asch has combined storytelling skill with historical accuracy and the sympathy of a deeply religious writer. In stature, The Apostle ranks with Asch's earlier work, The Nazarene (TIME...
That dinner-dance without the dinner is still up in air. We except "Jake" and "Asch" will have the dope for us shortly. Meanwhile, be sure to see Bob sherwood or Don Swanger for tickets to tomorrow's Navy Relief swingeroo at Potter. Middles see company commanders. Everybody's goin', even my tired old room mates, I think...
...novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
...Years of Our Lord first appeared serially in Esquire, in a setting of Esquire color or off-color cartoons. Komroff himself, like Sholem Asch, is not a Christian. He was born in Manhattan of Jewish parentage, is married to a Gentile, attends neither church nor synagogue but Ts described by friends as "deeply religious like Walt Whitman...