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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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2022]
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| Edice: | Jews and Judaism: history and culture
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3300868 |
| Shrnutí: | "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"-- |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9780817394097 0817394095 9780817321307 0817321306 |