Moses; Translated by Maurice Samuel and 12 similar items

Moses brought a testament of faith, a love of justice a hatred of tyranny to the world. His story has inspired movements of national liberation. Asch portrays him with vigor, insight sympathy as a leader who struggled with implacable enemies, rebellious followers personal failings to bring his people to a land of promise. Asch weaves a tapestry of superbly realized oriental color movement. Egypt comes alive under his pen. The opulence intrigue of Pharoah's court is contrasted with the poverty oppression of the slaves who worked to build maintain the empire. Every episode provides an excitingly instructive example. We meet Moses as a young prince, rebelling under palace discipline, aware of rumors concerning his birth, drawn to the Hebrews, but afraid to reach out to them. We see him struggling with halting speech a violent temper. Finally, he finds his true family makes the decision to cast his lot with Israel. One day in the desert, God speaks to him out of a bush that burns but isn't consumed commands him to deliver Israel to freedom. A great trek begins. This work of historical exactitude sustained inspiration meets the challenge of Moses with a scope authority worthy of that sublime figure. "In 1936, the novelist critic Ludwig Lewisohn was asked to name the world?s ten greatest living Jews. The resulting list, which ran in The NY Times, included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber Louis Brandeis. Lewisohn deemed only one writer great enough to be included in this illustrious Sholem Asch."?Ellen Umansky, Tablet Magazine Shipped the next business day 2/6/25