Back to God : a play of Jewish life in New York / by Hayim Ben Bass-Yoh
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Back to God : a play of Jewish life in New York / by Hayim Ben Bass-Yoh
Author: Bassen, Hayim
Year: 1923
Hayim Ben Bass-Yoh (24 April 1887 – 4 March 1931) was born in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, and came to the Bronx in 1905. He wrote a Yiddish-language play, Tsurik tsu zikh, drame fun idishn lebn in nyu york , which was translated into English as Back to God: a play of Jewish life in New York . The play concerns working-class life and socialism, the varying ideals of Jewish immigrants and other Americans, religion, and the philosophies of William James and Immanuel Kant. The playwright himself was a working-class Jewish immigrant who started writing “not having the slightest idea of how to write a play” and later learned “that it is incorrect to preach or philosophize in drama”. Back to God is his attempt, through the example of his character Silverman, to answer the question “What is a Jew?”, and to illustrate the wide variety of types of American Jews in the author’s social circle. The author, also known as Hayim or Hyman Bassen , was the younger brother of the uploader’s great-grandfather.
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