Maurice Samuel : Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian / Alan T. Levenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levenson, Alan T., author.

Series:

Jews and Judaism (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish learning and scholarship.

Judaism--20th century.

Judaism.

Zionists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Zionists.

Jewish authors--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Jewish authors.

Yiddish literature--History and criticism.

Yiddish literature.

Jews, Romanian--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Jews, Romanian.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.).

Samuel, Maurice, 1895-1972.

Samuel, Maurice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This short intellectual biography reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century, the Rumanian-born, English-educated, American belletrist Maurice Samuel. Although he spoke in a staccato Midlands accent, Samuel left Manchester, England in 1913, joined the American Army, served in military intelligence in World War I, and became a United States citizen. Samuel resettled his family in Palestine in 1929, then returned to the US, and spent his most creative years in New York City. A diaspora intellectual, or "rootless cosmopolitan," as Alan Levenson describes him, Samuel made an indelible mark on many features of contemporary Jewish thought and culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Making and Unmaking of a British Jewish Gentleman

2. The Fifty-Year Career of a Zionist Publicist

3. Moish Samuel: Forgotten Yiddishist

4. Polemics and Apologetics

5. The Fiction of Jewish Essentialism Exposed: Samuel and the Hebrew Bible

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Levenson, Alan T. Maurice Samuel

ISBN:

9780817394097

0817394095

OCLC:

1336954622