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The professor and the fossil : some observations on Arnold J. Toynbee's A study of history / Maurice Samuel.
Library at the Katz Center - Special CB63.T68 S3 1956b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuel, Maurice, 1895-1972.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toynbee, Arnold, 1889-1975. Study of history.
- Toynbee, Arnold.
- Jews--History.
- Jews.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Stein, Judith (donor) (CJS Special copy)
- Samuel, Maurice, 1895-1972 (autograph) (CJS Special copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 268, ix pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.
- Contents:
- The starting point
- We are identified
- Wasted tears and wasted lives
- The fossil creates a language
- The blurring effect
- Achievement and collapse
- The nature of Jewish monotheism
- The bas example
- Trivialization
- "Going! Going! ..."
- Positively the last appearance
- The ethos and techniques of survival
- Zionism and neo-Zionism
- Suppressio veri
- Suggestio falsi
- On aliveness-in-history.
- Notes:
- "Second printing, October 1956"--T.p. verso.
- "This is a Borzoi book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- CJS Special copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Judith Stein.
- CJS Special copy has illustrated bookplate of an unidentified former owner on front pastedown.
- CJS Special copy inscribed by the author ("Sincerely Yours, Maurice Samuel") on front free endpaper.
- CJS Special copy: dust jacket (damaged) retained.
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