God of vengeance
By: Donald Margulies ; adapted from the play by Sholom Asch ; based on a literal translation by Joachim Neugroschel.
Contributors: Asch, Sholem, 1880-1957.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Tenement houses -- Drama.; Jewish families -- Drama.; Immigrants -- Drama.; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Description: "Jack Chapman runs a brothel on the first floor of his tenement and while he is prosperous, he is not virtuous. For his daughter Rivkele, however, Jack aspires for something more - respectability through her marriage to a religious scholar. But Rivkele's tender love affair with Manke, one of Jack's prostitutes, threatens to destroy the upcoming marriage, and with it, Jack's dream of redemption."--BOOK JACKET.