Maurice Samuel: life and letters of a secular Jewish contrarian /

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Levenson, Alan T. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Jews and Judaism: history and culture
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource.
ISBN:9780817394097
0817394095

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