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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2022]
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| Colecção: | Jews and Judaism: history and culture
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| Acesso em linha: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3300868 |
Sumário:
- 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.