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God of Vengeance was a Yiddish play by Sholem Asch published  in 1907. It was a drama about a Jewish family in the Pale of Settlement in Poland, where the father runs a brothel and tries to atone for his sins by commissioning a Torah scroll, while his daughter has a secret lesbian relationship. It performed to great acclaim in Europe, translated into Polish, Hebrew, English, Italian, French, Dutch, Czech, Swedish, and Norwegian. Performed in Yiddish in New York in ?? (David Kessler is in it by 1909: https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/frw/1909/03/29/01/article/11/?srpos=20&e=---en-20-frw-1--img-txIN%7ctxTI-%d7%93%d7%a2%d7%a8+%d7%92%d7%90%d6%b8%d7%98+%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%9f+%d7%a0%d7%a7%d7%9e%d7%94-1 )

It was adapted into a silent film in 1912, directed by Alexander Arkatov, though the film itself is now lost. While it originally had Russian subtitles, it was translated into multiple languages, including English, and aired in several countries including Australia in 1913.

It was most successful on the Yiddish stage: it was one of the earliest productions by the Vilna Troupe in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1916, staged in New York

It was staged in English in 1974 (https://nyti.ms/43INLNG) It was staged in Yiddish in Buenos Aires in the 1930s.