![]() ![]() It was a hit in New York, too, first on the Lower East Side and, eventually, in an abridged English translation, at the Apollo Theatre, where it featured the first lesbian kiss on Broadway. Asch ignored his mentor’s warnings: he found a star in more permissive Berlin to play the father, and the production became a controversial success, touring across Europe. It’s a shtetl tragedy: a Jewish brothel owner buys a Torah to celebrate his daughter’s wedding to a scholar, but, when he learns that his daughter has fallen in love with one of his prostitutes, he casts her and the Torah down into the brothel. When the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch presented his play “God of Vengeance” at a Warsaw salon in 1906, his mentor, I. PHOTOGRAPH BY TAWNI BANNISTER / NYT / REDUX “The purpose of theatre is to bring into public that which is kept offstage,” Vogel said. ![]()
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