An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

He sat out World War I in the U. His 1929–31 trilogy Farn Mabul (Before the Flood translated as Three Cities) describes early 20th century Jewish life in St. He returned to Poland.

Sholem Asch born Szalom Asz (Yiddish: שלום אַש) also written Shalom Asch (November 1 1880 – July 10 1957) was a Polish-born American Jewish novelist dramatist and essayist in the Yiddish language.