Isidor Gordon Gottschalk Ascher
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Isidore Gordon Gottschalk Ascher (1835–1933) was a British-Canadian novelist and poet. He was born in Glasgow
in 1835, the eldest son of Isaac Gottschalk Ascher
and brother to Jacob Ascher
. His family moved to Canada in 1841 and Isidore received his education at Montreal
High School then attended McGill University
where he graduated in Law. He was called to the Bar in 1862, but returned to England in 1864 and became a novelist and poet. In 1872 he married Lilly, eldest daughter of Samuel Newman and died in London in 1933.
Isidore was one of the founders of Temple Emanu-El
a Reform congregation founded in 1882 and inaugural committee member of the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society when established in 1863 in Montreal. This society later became the Baron de Hirsch Institute and Benevolent Society, one of the most important charitable institutions on the continent of North America.
One of his early works, Voices From The Hearth, was published in Montreal in 1863, prior to his move to England, and received some praise:
His novel An Odd Man's Story is the tale story of a man who was duped by a rascal of a brother aided by a weak wife. There is no special reason for the tale, though it opens in a manner which seems to promise something a little out of the common.
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
in 1835, the eldest son of Isaac Gottschalk Ascher
Isaac Gottschalk Ascher
Isaac Gottschalk Ascher born in Naugard, Prussia in 1795 was a wholesale jeweller, and died in Montreal 7 February 1891.He married Rachel and had four sons and one daughter...
and brother to Jacob Ascher
Jacob Ascher
Jacob Gottschalk Ascher was a British–Canadian chess master. He was the son of Isaac Gottschalk Ascher, and brother to Isidor, Albert, Hyman, and Eva....
. His family moved to Canada in 1841 and Isidore received his education at Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
High School then attended McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
where he graduated in Law. He was called to the Bar in 1862, but returned to England in 1864 and became a novelist and poet. In 1872 he married Lilly, eldest daughter of Samuel Newman and died in London in 1933.
Isidore was one of the founders of Temple Emanu-El
Temple Emanu-El
Temple Emanu-El of New York was the first Reform Jewish congregation in New York City and, because of its size and prominence, has served as a flagship congregation in the Reform branch of Judaism since its founding in 1845. Its landmark Romanesque Revival building on Fifth Avenue is widely...
a Reform congregation founded in 1882 and inaugural committee member of the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society when established in 1863 in Montreal. This society later became the Baron de Hirsch Institute and Benevolent Society, one of the most important charitable institutions on the continent of North America.
One of his early works, Voices From The Hearth, was published in Montreal in 1863, prior to his move to England, and received some praise:
Though not without occasional defects, which seem more the result of carelessness than of inability to do better, this volume reveals a subtle and delicate imagination, earnest and tender aspirations after the beautiful and the true, and, in several pieces, a rich musical harmony, which is full of promise of higher achievement in future, should Mr. Ascher continue to work the vein he has so auspiciously opened.
His novel An Odd Man's Story is the tale story of a man who was duped by a rascal of a brother aided by a weak wife. There is no special reason for the tale, though it opens in a manner which seems to promise something a little out of the common.
Fiction
- An Odd Man's Story. London: Elliott Stock, London, 1889. British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2010. ISBN 9781241176143 ISBN 1241176140
- The Doom Of Destiny. London: Diprose & Bateman, 1895.
- A Social Upheaval. London: Greening & Co., 1898.
Poetry
- Voices From The Hearth. Montreal/New York: John Lovell, D. Appleton, 1863.
- One Hundred And Five Sonnets. Poetry, 1912
- Collected Poems. Epworth P, 1929.
External links
- Review of Voices from the Hearth: a collection of verses, by Gerald MasseyGerald MasseyGerald Massey was an English poet and self-educated Egyptologist. He was born near Tring, Hertfordshire in England.-Biography:...
, reproduced in the book Gerald Massey "Chartist, Poet, Radical and Thinker"- A Biography by David Shaw.http://gerald-massey.org.uk/Massey/erv_athenaeum_short_2.htm#1919 - By the firelight http://books.google.com/books?id=_F9JBkHrrkAC&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q=&f=false
- Four poems by Ascher http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canvers-bin/finder?mode=list&l=0&element_nbr=2&hdg_sort_nbr=25&clctn_nbr=1
- My bridge http://books.google.com/books?id=YixKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA663
- Sleep and death http://books.google.com/books?id=Jz4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA478
- Richard Cobden. In memoriam. http://books.google.com/books?id=0z0FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62