In her acting role, Reissa gives a wonderfully nuanced performance as a mother who has reinvented herself and can convincingly wear a mask of respectability, at least until things get heated and her disguise falls away. Giles Kristian's novel, God of Vengeance, is a gripping tale that had me hooked from the first page. He's on the hunt for me with a crowbar. Hindel, forcing the door open, rushes in. Here, at least, it's all cash. Don't be ashamed. It's for ours. ​We'll be all by ourselves. Rifkele! God won't have it. It will be easy enough to find men who are willing to honor the Law. That's the way, mamma dear. The father comes of a fine family and the son carries a smart head on his shoulders. There's a virtuous Yekel for you! . . Sarah, betakes herself assiduously to cleaning the room and setting the table. What then? And know, that a Holy Scroll is a wondrous possession. It's none of our business. . What she is, she is. are the property of their respective owners. (To Yekel.) What do they want of you, anyway? What is a good god for a Vengeance paladin #1 Jan 19, 2019. Amari. . Don't be afraid of your father. The novel’s protagonist; a teenage Reaper. (About to depart. I'm not asking you. The guests will be here at any moment. I've sent for Reb Ali. Trust in the Lord, and say "The past is dead and gone.". Yekel, still uncertain, sits down opposite him, next to Reb Ali. A collection of sketches depicting Yiddish life in the "staedtil" of the Old World. (To Reizel, without looking at her.) Such a crazy idea: to stand in the rain. Do you see, Reb Aaron, there are still pious Jews in the world; here's a man with a daughter, and has a Scroll of the Law written for her future husband. You don't need it indoors. I'm afraid this is going to be a terrible night. And dancing? Naomi Newman Reb-Eli and Roni-Alperin in God of Vengeance, which runs March 20-23. Credit: Yiddish Theatre Ensemble. To be sure, there is no technical resemblance between the two dramas; nor, despite an external similarity in backgrounds, is there any real identity of purpose. ​First produced by the famous director Max Reinhardt, at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, in 1910, Ash's powerful play quickly made its way to the chief stages of Europe. Perhaps, too, the retribution which in each case is visited upon the parent arises from the fact that both Mrs. Warren and Yekel have, in Vivie's accusatory words, "lived one life and believed in another. Sarah and Rifkele are discovered as the curtain rises. And isn't our boss a respectable man? (She sits down upon a bundle of clothes near the door, buries her face in her hands and begins to weep.) And if You don't, then You're no God at all, I tell you. David Levinsky”. . (Resumes her packing.) . Come, Scribe. . A coat? Basha, comes running wildly from her room, with a hysterical outcry. It has been played all over Germany, Austria, Russia, Poland, Holland, Nor- way, Sweden and Italy. This is our way of earning a living. . Come. He neither sees nor hears. . Why are you sitting there like that? Now tell me where Rifkele is. Goodness me! My heart pounded so wildly. I've got my eye on one — as beautiful as the day,[9] and still untouched. . Upon my soul! Appears in the doorway at the rear. Yes, at the first May rain they cook sorrel soup. Drink, Scribe. An old fortune-teller, — a sorceress told it to me. . The finishing touches are being put to the cleaning of the room. (Goes back to her room.). He'll support the couple for life. Down into the brothel! Take everything, everything. . You know I was never unkind to you, even if I haven't been all I might have, lately. . . Isaiah 34:8 also uses vengeance as a tool of justice, judgment, and retribution. When he woke up, he discovered strange memories in his mind. . This may be because of the myths that the characters were born from, or maybe it's because the writers have taken regular human characters and turned them into something more. (Pause.) For the love of God, Yekel, remember! I'll believe you. I can be ready, anyway. Old friends. Praised be the Heavenly Father! (Goes into the next room,) We must wash, dress, and put on our best clothes. Shloyme will do that for me. The girls, eyes distended with fear, listen intently. . and have pure children, Jewish children, just like every Jewish daughter." Come, Rifkele, — do you want to? Have it your way. Woe is me! I'm a grown-up girl already. Reizel, thrusting aside the curtain of her compartment. Let's splash each other. And you'll have pure, respectable children, virtuous children. Gone is the shock that their intimacy must have once given to audiences, yet that moment makes a lovely counterpoint to the play's male-dominated scenes of cruelty and greed. He was a fine man. No. . . . They are barefoot. (Basha and Reizel huddle close to the wall, trembling with terror. Whenever he kisses me he hides his face in my bosom, closes his eyes and smiles as if he were a babe in his mother's arms. It's a great thing to get married. Cool me, refresh me with your tresses. I'll dash vitriol into her face. If you don't want her to have anything to do Is she pale? Just wash your ​hands clean of it and forget it. The Scribe, holding his glass in his hand, to Reb Ali, referring to Yekel. (Returns to Rifkele's door.) . Doesn't he give the biggest donations to charity? . Yet in either case the daughter is lost to the parents, and the power of money is of no avail to win the child back. Let him know (Comes in.) I, Rebbi, (Striking himself over the heart.) . You'll not tell. (Silence. . ​See, now we're all alone and nobody can hear us. Here, give this to mamma. . What? Manke, speaks with restrained passion and love, — softly, but with deep resonance. Your health, host. Well, now. pray for me. . And a pair of white slippers. (Quietly, to Yekel and Sarah.) A mother should guard her daughter well. It may be copyrighted outside the U.S. (see Help:Public domain). A good thing you came. Have pity upon her!". Each god may be powerful or recognizable to be considered a god or being born/created as a god. . All night I lay in bed waiting for my father to fall asleep, so that I might steal out to you. Comb your hair. Here's your bread and butter. Everybody knows it. Her eyes sparkle with wanton cunning. Only a man of dignity, a person of standing. Much I care! (Both go to their beds and feign deep sleep.). A wonderful student, of a fine family. I 'm afraid of my father. forget your father." Why don't you say something? . . . If it was natural for the novel of countries like France, Germany, Norway or Italy to fall under the sway of Turgenev, Tolstoi, Dostoyevski, Chekhov and Gorki, how much more so was it for a non-Russian fiction produced on Russian soil to seek guidance, directly or indirectly, in the same source. Fire and flame! . . . Like the rain itself. Too late. Verse Concepts. At home, in my village, the first sorrel must be sprouting. I called you. Nobody'll scold you. Goodness me! The STRATFORD CO., Publishers (Fetching from her compartment a brown dress.) His beard is long, white and sparse. A fine young lady he's hunted out! (Admonishing him.) . I leave behind me sinful offspring. And all behind my back? I'm afraid to go to sleep. Hush. . . And my son-in-law will be sitting inside there studying the sacred Law. What's true is true. I once asked Manke to teach Rifkele how to embroider on canvas. Human sympathy is the watchword. Listen to me, Rebbi. . She! Who could ever have expected such a thing? From now on see to it that you never speak such words, — that you have reverence, great reverence. (Pointing below. . She wants to bring a chum. Not on their lives! The Gentile is impure, but his money's untainted.[2]. Cf. What! . (Enter Reb Ali and a stranger. I'll go. I placed it in your room and prayed to it for days and nights at a time. . . It's all the same to me. Like this. Consider what you're doing. For the rest, the tongue of the Jewish masses was never taken seriously and the very ​notion of a literature in "a gibberish that has not even a grammar" would have seemed ludicrous. Once I've said "yes," I mean it. Why, a young chap like you! a good God. (Suddenly noticing Rifkele, he explodes with rage.) (Comes close to Shloyme and draws ​him away from Hindel.) He went to the synagogue with Reb Ali and the Scribe. (He struggles with her, tearing from her grasp a red waist. Sholem Asch’s play “God of Vengeance” caused quite a stir when it came to Broadway in 1923. . The "Uncle" of a brothel. The exceptions here mentioned belong to the sixties and the seventies, when some brilliant attempts were made in the direction of literature in the better sense of the term by S. J. Abramovitch. No more daughter. Nick; oh my luv; she blubbered for a few minutes. ​What are you standing there for, instead of going after her? Asch fearlessly wrote about subjects that were rarely encountered onstage. . No more Holy Scroll. . (He is undecided.). . I feel that the ghost of my mother, with her thorns and her briers, is hovering about my room. We have no right to a Holy Scroll. . not have people eye you like a thief. In these days even the daughters of the best families aren't any better. That doesn't bother me. Something seems to draw her here. (To Sarah.) . Such eyes, such motions. What has come over the man? . I'm going to the young man's father directly. Away from me! Baker convincingly shows us a father overwhelmed by a guilt that finds its outlet in rage and violence. Gods are characters who have access to the different realms of the multiverse and take a certain role in the multiverse, whether it's creation, destruction, protection or something else you get the idea. . . Shloyme, slapping her across the shoulders. . . Over his nightshirt he has thrown a coat. My daughter is holier to me than a Holy Scroll. But that's another matter. (She thrusts her hair back underneath her wig and pulls off her apron. Exchanging photographs, eh? There's nobody to be ashamed of. Just see with whom he's stopped to talk! We see the struggle of a teen to find her identity, the genuine but misguided efforts of a father to make a better life for his child, and the stumbling steps that an economically challenged community takes in its relationship with God. It really becomes him! We know nothing about it. I know. The stage is empty. And why not? Reb Ali, you're a good Rebbi. . I know, God will punish us. Somebody might come. A fine business! God gives sinners what their sin deserves. … Retribution. . You ought to act more decently. Do you really think I meant to marry her? Where is she? The theme, while thoroughly original and unique, reflects the artistic traditions of the country in which the author was born and bred. But my poor, innocent daughter. ​(Pause.) The concept of vengeance back in the days of the Bible was more likely one of justice. Open up the earth at my feet and let it swallow me!" Go on! What does she want of you? (Manke kisses her passionately.). . Who can tell? Don't be afraid. (Pours out brandy.) One thing only. . Come here this instant! What! O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself; or, "shine forth" - make thy justice to appear; show thyself in thy character of a God who will by no means clear … Do you want to sleep with me tonight like this? I see. No, no. . can, for the whole world rests upon the Holy Law. You'll see. . This way, please. The whole world isn't any better. . But the girls must be something fine, — first class. (She leaves her little room and goes into the cellar.) Don't talk nonsense. It began with the betrayal of a lord by a king . Yekel! Well, what are you sitting there moping about? Here I do no business with you at all. Mother, pray in my behalf. Hebrews 10:30. A Jew, even if he sins, still remains a Jew. . In the home of one who has a Scroll of the Law written, all must be joy and happiness. . The characters stride from the page, alive, hungry, real . Though Asch's characters tend to be one-dimensional in a story that seems plucked from the tabloids, his intrepid takes on religion, societal mores, and the evil that men do, still resonate. . Don't make any noise. What does he want of her? (Takes him aside. . The Blind Woman, now enthusiastic, pointing to Rifkele. Well, well. Do you hear? It was this work that brought him into prominence at the age of twenty-four. Everything and everybody will go. . . . . . (To the other women.) ), Well, and where is the bride's father? It's raining. Down into the brothel with you! (Pockets her ear-rings.). . Better clothes, upon my word, than the rich daughters ​of my village. He won't wake up so soon. . A good Rebbi, may I live so! It … Just remember that Shloyme is one of your own crowd. It's all the same to me now. I'd scratch her eyes out for her! Tell me now. Everybody knows it. The child is innocent of all evil. however humble your trade. Speak! We'll have plenty of customers for our honey-cakes and our geese. People don't open places with old carcasses. And why not? And I'll say to my girl, "Forget your mother. . Come here, I tell you ! I'm not so old. Nothing will help. I'll not beat you. What's the matter with you? You said (He opens the door.) She whispers cautiously. streets? And now to decorate the mirror. . A handsome sweetheart, with two jet-black temple-locks and a satin coat, and a velvet skull-cap, dressed just like a Rabbi. . The movement bears curious resemblance to that of the present literary renaissance of Ireland. don't need her. Are ​you still a virtuous Jewish daughter? . Rifkele, falls into Manke's arms. . . Are you still a chaste Jewish daughter? I uncovered your breasts and washed them with the rainwater that trickled down my arms. Not at all, hostess. (Goes over to the door of Rifkele's room and looks inside.) ah! In there I placed it, — in her room. . What's all the noise about? (Sarah, Shloyme and Hindel leave.). And what a thin drizzle. . View our Privacy Policy. . Come! Why, her breath smells terribly. (To Yekel.) She then approaches Rifkele, lifts her by the hand and leads her off stage into the room. (Leaving.) All greet Yekel, some of them ironically.). . You ​may tell me everything, even if I am her mother. With Introduction and Notes, Editor of The Jewish Daily Forward May Heaven watch over all of us. You'll tell them that you were with a big business house. . Sarah, running back. . Rifkele, as she pins some paper flowers to the curtain. . Talk about the fellows that were after me ! They aroused an amused sort of admiration. . (Looks around to see whether Reizel is still present. What? Extra tables and benches have been placed about, laden with baskets of bread, cake, fruit, etc. Rushes over to Rifkele with arms upraised, ready to strike her. . Come, come and take your Holy Scroll home in rejoicing. . She is half-dressed, with a shawl thrown over her. ​I cannot conclude without a word of well-earned praise for the English version of "The God of Vengeance." Your daddy loves you. . Come, let's sit down here on the lounge. Is it you, Manke? Then I 'd know she was dead, — that I had buried an innocent creature. . . Punish my wife. It’s currently being performed in the original Oy vey!) . Rejoice, host! . Do you want money? BikerBud89. The "jargon of servant maids" becomes music in his hands. . The 'Khassidim' are noted for the religious frenzy of their worship. . Raises her hands toward the ceiling.) . Cited by 28; ... Search Title: required Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters. And I'll say to him, "Here you are. (Kisses Rifkele.) She is only half dressed, her hair in disorder. . . The latter addresses the Scribe.) . (To Yekel.) (Looks around.) Why, Manke tells me. . ), Let her go, I say! . God of Vengeance was published in English-language translation in 1918. From this day on you'll have to deal ​with me. Thus, the vengeance of God is not some irrational burst of divine anger, but rather the exercise of divine justice. Such a home will always be prosperous and guarded against all misfortune. . whoever you are. And I tell you, it's just as if she had been brought up in a synagogue, — Heaven pardon the word in this place. Because I didn't. God of Vengeance begins a prequel series for Sigurd, his early years, how he became who he is and what molded him into the fearsome and Odin favoured warrior that he is. . In 1923, the cast of "God of Vengeance" was arrested. . Buy the print book Check if you have access via personal or institutional login. . Our Lord is a God of mercy and forgiveness, but He is also a God of retribution and vengeance. Tell me, as truly as there is a God in heaven, — tell me, do you really mean to marry me? . Scribe. It is a night in spring. What? The evening shadows gather.). Rifkele is a fascinating girl, dressed very neatly and modestly; still in short dresses, with two long braids hanging across her shoulders. He closes the door after her. This is a shame and a disgrace before people! And just as Yekel, in his impotence, blasphemously thrusts the Holy Scroll from his household, so does Mrs. Warren, defeated in her attempt to win back her daughter, cry "From this ​time forth, so help me Heaven in my last hour, I'll do wrong and nothing but wrong. God forbid, the whole town will have to atone for the sin! No, I don't want her to! There's no beating folks these days. It washes the whole winter off your head. Just for the time being. (Rifkele goes into her room.). (Pause.) Ash's piece glows with poetic realism and recounts an individual tragedy not without symbolic power. I'm afraid that this will bring the downfall of our hopes. He might hear us. . . . It’s the wrenching story of a brothel owner’s attempt to marry off his daughter to a Torah scholar, only to have her drawn back into the life of sin in which she grew up. (To Yekel.) She is very near. Kristian has clearly studied the sagas and historical references. . . Back to the brothel. Arrange the wedding date and have the bride go at once to her parents-in-law. Off with you! I want to tell the Rebbi the whole truth, — the honest truth. Here, at least, I'm a free person. And something drew me so irresistibly to you. Have you gone crazy? Authorized Translation from the Yiddish a beautiful bride. . And I'll prosper on it." Come in. What's happened here? Has anybody gone yet to look for her? He'll become head of the town before long. What words are these! . He's over at the synagogue and must surely be waiting for me. Take your Holy Scroll along with you. . Ah! Warm yourself next to me. . I lay awake all night. There is a scraping of chairs and tables. Yekel! Fenrir ultimately was bound, so Tyr lost his hand, and as the American Gods' character remarks, Odin used this sacrifice to further belittle the war god. ABOUT. . . You have a business. The important point is to keep it a secret. . ), Down into the brothel with you! 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