Got fun nekome (The God of Vengeance; 1907) is a Yiddish language play by Scholem Asch. The action takes place in the present time (1907) in one large town of a Russian province. It can be read as part of a trilogy depicting the “underworld” together with Motke ganef (Motke Thief; 1917), and Der toyter Mensch (The Dead Man; 1922). The narrative tells the story of the Tchaftchovitsch family, which consists of the father (Yankl), a brothel owner, the mother (Sarah), a former sex worker, and their teenage daughter (Rifkele). Despite parental efforts to keep her away from the “underworld” of the brothel, Rifkele becomes romantically involved with Manke, one of the sex workers at the brothel run by her father. Concurrently, Yankl and Sarah have initiated conversations with the matchmaker and are striving to ensure their daughter is considered a good candidate to marry and start a family. In this way, Yankl and Sarah hope to redeem themselves from their sins of a life linked to sex trafficking. This redemption is unfulfilled since Rifkele runs away one night with Manke. The uncertainty of Rifkele's “pureness” after spending one night with Manke makes her father sabotage the engagement. Scholem Asch (1880-1957) wrote Yiddish novels and plays. He was born in Kutno, a city from the Russian Empire, and resettled in New York City after World War I broke out where he became a US citizen. His publications and the stagings of his plays were often surrounded by public controversies shining light on contemporary sociopolitical issues. This entry refers to the German translation of the play published in 1907 by the S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin.