Robert Asch
Robert Charles Asch (born 1968) is an English Catholic writer, critic and scholar. He was born in London to a mixed Canadian‑Austrian Jewish family; his parents were opera singers. He studied at St Paul’s School and the University of Toronto.
Since 2001 he has co-edited the Catholic literary magazine St. Austin Review and he edits Saint Austin Press. He taught English and History at Chavagnes International College in France from 2002 to 2012. He received a Wilbur Research Fellowship at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal to study the English poet Lionel Johnson. In 2022 he spoke at the American Chesterton Society conference in Milwaukee on “Chesterton and the Jews.”
He is married to poet Ruth Tyldesley Asch, and they live in Preston, Lancashire with their children. He spent several years in the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution and, in 1996, converted from Reform Judaism to Roman Catholicism, describing it as a completion of his Jewish faith.
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