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...Kutno, Poland, Sholem Asch used to pester his mother with the question: "Why has God divided mankind into Jew and Gentile?" With a rollicking brood of ten boys and five girls on her hands, Mother Asch had "other things to think about." But the question plagued Sholem Asch, eventually led him to become a religious novelist...
...fictionalized lives of Christ (The Nazarene), Saint Paul (The Apostle), and Mary, he stretched Gospel truth, stressed the ties of faith linking Jew and Christian, "in the hope that mutual understanding might bring about a better world." For his pains, pious Novelist Asch caught a crossfire of criticism from both camps-and scored bull's-eyes on the bestseller lists every time...
Christian and pagan philosophers have proclaimed the sadness and transience of human life. But the Jew, who has known more of tragedy than most men, has remained "the one true optimist; his love of life is 'strong as death.' " And he has held firm to the belief that "tachlis [purpose] and not tragedy . . . is the meaning of life...
...Other Cheek. It is the Jew's sense of special purpose, says Ussher, that has made him an object of resentment to the non-Jewish majority-who have spent centuries trying savagely to persuade the Jew that he has no claim to a creed of hope and purpose. During most of history, the Jews have responded with Gandhi-like nonresistance. The tragi-comical result, says Ussher, is that the Jews have acted in essence like Christians, and Christians as followers of the tribal Jehovah. But Jewish doggedness, in Ussher's view, has harmed as well as saved...
Forti nihil difficile. This was translated by him literally as: "Nothing is difficult to the brave"-and by the Whigs as: "The impudence of some men sticks at nothing." Even the Tories wondered what they had gotten hold of when "that damned bumptious Jew boy" invaded their circles "in a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band . . . scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles . . . white gloves with jeweled rings outside them . . . well-oiled black ringlets touching his shoulders...