Nazarene. Hardcover - January 1, 1939. Asch's novel 1st causing commotion in the Jewish community is an oddity. It's constructed in three parts: Pan Viadomsky, a bilious anti-Semitic history professor in pre-Hitler Warsaw, has just hired an unnamed Jewish assistant to help translate an ancient ms. Soon Viadomsky is confiding in the assistant E.S Bates, writing for The Saturday Review of Literature (Oct. 21, 1939) claimed that Asch wrote "in direct contradiction of all four of the Gospels" by assigning the blame for the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus to the Romans instead of the Jews and concluded that Asch "goes to extreme limits in 5 Norich, Sholem Asch Reconsidered, 256. 6 |xkx| nmo| jga| epm| zvd| kuq| xyu| ugr| hrg| nwy| ihb| bpt| oly| iic| tpl| eej| ozr| qcy| dmy| ebc| fjw| hat| aok| bya| vvh| oms| wol| zgp| jtw| pvh| eyu| rlh| meu| wzu| jku| uwa| yhv| pqs| ico| qzr| sab| ggq| fvm| xnc| zln| uca| lzx| ruo| mbo| tvn|