Maurice Samuel : life and letters of a secular Jewish contrarian

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Full Title:: Maurice Samuel : life and letters of a secular Jewish contrarian / Alan T. Levenson
Series Titles:: Jews and Judaism: history and culture
Jews and Judaism: history and culture.

Subjects:: Samuel, Maurice,1895-1972
Jewish learning and scholarship
Judaism--20th century
Zionists--New York (State)--New York--Biography
Jewish authors--New York (State)--New York--Biography
Yiddish literature--History and criticism
Jews, Romanian--New York (State)--New York--Biography
New York (N.Y.)--Biography

Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
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"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xiii, 221 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.