Maurice Samuel: Life And Letters Of A Secular Jewish Contrarian (Jews And Judaism: History And Culture)

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"--

• | Author: Alan T. Levenson
• | Publisher: University Alabama Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 02, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0817321306
• | ISBN-13: 9780817321307