Isidore Gordon Gottschalk Ascher (1835 – September 19, 1914) was a Scottish-Canadian novelist and poet.
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.
[1][2] In 1872, Ascher married Lilly, eldest daughter of Samuel Newman.
[3][4][dubious – discuss] Isidore was one of the founders of the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society when it was established in 1863 in Montreal.
[6][7] 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:[8] 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.