"Indecent" is, on the surface, the history of Yiddish writer Sholem Asch's brave Yiddish play "God of Vengeance" which was"incredibly, considering its wise understanding of the Jewish demimonde"written in 1906 during the height of anti-Jewish pogroms. (Asch actually witnessed a pogrom and its ugliness tainted his life thereafter.) It is far more, though. The play is a look at the sweep of Jewish life in the twenti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:02AM on April 25, 2017