TY - GEN T1 - Maurice Samuel : life and letters of a secular Jewish contrarian T2 - Jews and Judaism: history and culture A1 - Levenson, Alan T. LA - English PP - Tuscaloosa PB - The University of Alabama Press YR - 2022 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1336954622 AB - "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"-- CN - DS151 SN - 9780817394097 SN - 0817394095 SN - 9780817321307 SN - 0817321306 KW - Samuel, Maurice, : 1895-1972. KW - Samuel, Maurice, : 1895-1972 KW - Jews, Romanian : New York (State) : New York : Biography. KW - Yiddish literature : History and criticism. KW - Jewish authors : New York (State) : New York : Biography. KW - Zionists : New York (State) : New York : Biography. KW - Judaism : 20th century. KW - Jewish learning and scholarship. KW - New York (N.Y.) : Biography. KW - Littérature yiddish : Histoire et critique. KW - Écrivains juifs : New York (État) : New York : Biographies. KW - Judaïsme : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Juifs : Savoir et érudition. KW - Juifs roumains : New York (État) : New York : Biographies. KW - Jewish. KW - HISTORY. KW - Judaism. KW - RELIGION. KW - Zionists KW - Yiddish literature KW - Judaism KW - Jews, Romanian KW - Jewish learning and scholarship KW - Jewish authors KW - New York (State) : New York KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Biographies ER -