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Paula Vogel's 'Indecent' tells story of a Jewish playwright's Broadway debut and subsequent obscenity trial by Chris Jones

Anyone who works in the theater is familiar with struggle. But the Polish-Jewish novelist Sholem Asch had so much strife with his 1907 play, "God of Vengeance," that he surely must have felt cursed. At various points in its history, this Yiddish drama about an illicit lesbian love affair in a family...

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 04:45PM on October 2, 2018

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