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SHOLEM ASCH Yearnings Appears in Many of His I PAFFORD's BEAUTY SALON Stories Which Have This Theme Friday, September 24, 1954 THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY Page Ninety-one Daytona Beach, Florida “World’s Most Famous Beach” Jew, in “Shloime Naggid.” And he himself with his Messianic NEW YEAR GREETINGS SHOLEM ASCH yearnings appears in many of his I PAFFORD'S BEAUTY SALON stories which have this theme. Individual (Continued from Page 90) hailed Asch as the coming Yid- His wife has been a great influ- Coiffures York Yiddish Freie Arbeter dish writer: "He has his own way ence in his life and his literary TELEPHONE 8722 wrote on Asch’s 70th of describing people nature, 146 MAGNOLIA AVENUE—Opposite Williams Hotel Shtimme and work. She first acquainted him DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA birthday: “This controversy about none of his young colleagues and with the broad stream of Euro > Christianity overlooks the whole can compare with him." pean literature and guided him. GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES FOR Asch, the great place he has held Asch has never forgotten his Now in his seventies, Asch is a THE NEW YEAR in Yiddish literature for the last debt to Peretz, who had immedi- heavy set man, with a strong, Slip Covers Drapes Bed Spreads 30 and 40 years. If we cut out ately recognized his genius. In lined face, which generally looks Asch from Jewish literary a- 1915, when Peretz died, Asch sad. but lights up with a warm chievements during the last 50 wrote a glowing tribute to him smile. He puls his arms around a H. B. STONE 209 S. BEACH, years, it would leave a grotesque as his teacher and rabbi. He re- friend with an affectionate famil- HOLLYWOOD DAYTONA FLA. PHONE 7610 caricature.” * called that Peretz had given him iarity. His bushy moustache and Aleichem, a After Peretz, Shalom set of his works and had writ- unruly hair give him something May the Days of the New Year Unfold the Best for You and Mendele, the fathers of mod- ten in it: of the appearance of a kind, shag- •era 'Yiddish literature, Asch "I hear in the egg-shell a bird gy dog. His voice has grown hus- comes first among the rest, with breaking through. What will ky and growling, keeping HARRY'S SPORT SHOP as if in FISHING TACKLE and SPORTS WEAR only Schneour and Bergelson as emerge? An eagle or a crow?" with his character. “ 151 S. Atlantic Ave. H. J. SHERRIF Daytona Beach, Fla. 1902, over 50 years ‘An eagle or a crow’ I say to interesting his peers. In It is to compare PHONE 2-1353 ago, the great Yiddish literary myself every time I write any- him with the picture Israel Cohen critic, Baal Machshoves, already thing,” Asch added. Asch is full painted of him on his first visit of warmth and human kindness. to London in 1906, when he was GOOD YOM TOV He is the romantic, the lover in GREETINGS not quite 26. “I expected to find THE JOHNSONS' Yiddish literature. Baal Mach- a wild-eyed youth. But my ex- shoves called him “the heart of pectations belied, TEENS and JUNIORS FASHIONS GARAGE were for I "LOVELY LOVELY SMITH'S the Jewish mother.” “He FASHIONS FOR THI MISS' COMPLETE sees greeted a gently spoken, courtly We Specialize in Smaller Sizes MOTOR OVERHAULING Jewish life with the eyes of the mannered young man, tall, slim, 204 SEABREEZE BLVD. TELEPHONE 2-1273 Tune Up and Repair Jewish mother.” He inherited clean-shaven, with dreamy eyes AVE. 9 5. GRANDVIEW that from his own mother, a great and a high, intellectual forehead, PHONE 2-3011 GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES character, “a poetic, dreamy soul surmounted by black tousled AGENTS, with a good heart,” who till locks, perennial GENERAL INC. and the smile of W. 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