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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Hlavní autor: Levenson, Alan T. (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2022]
Edice:Jews and Judaism: history and culture
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3300868
Obsah:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Making and Unmaking of a British Jewish Gentleman
  • 2. The Fifty-Year Career of a Zionist Publicist
  • 3. Moish Samuel: Forgotten Yiddishist
  • 4. Polemics and Apologetics
  • 5. The Fiction of Jewish Essentialism Exposed: Samuel and the Hebrew Bible
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.