Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch was a Polish-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language.
Unsourced
- Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
- The lash may force men to physical labor; it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
- Through our soul is our contact with heaven.
- Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.
- Each time he hears Jews groan, he tries to break his chains- but God has vowed not to release him (the Messiah) till the Jews tear the chains from his hands.