Word: sholem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old hoodlum, out on parole from reform school, met a 65-year-old rabbi. First the hoodlum insulted the rabbi, then knocked out two of his teeth. A month later Hoodlum John Peluso and Rabbi Sholem Cohn met in a New York court. The charge against Peluso: felonious assault. Said Rabbi Cohn in Yiddish (he cannot speak English): "As a rabbi, I forgive him. I don't want him punished...
...brackets of fast-selling fiction. Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, published the year before, was the No. 1 U.S. fiction best-seller for eleven months, was then nosed out by John P. Marquand's So Little Time (sales of The Robe to date: 680,000 copies). Sholem Asch's The Apostle is now No. 4 bestseller...
...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...
...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...