Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian PDF
Preview Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian
MAURICE SAMUEL JEWS AND JUDAISM: HISTORY AND CULTURE Series Editors Mark K. Bauman Adam D. Mendelsohn Founding Editor Leon J. Weinberger Advisory Board Tobias Brinkmann Ellen Eisenberg David Feldman Kirsten Fermaglich Jeffrey S. Gurock Nahum Karlinsky Richard Menkis Riv- Ellen Prell Mark A. Raider Raanan Rein Jonathan Schorsch Stephen J. Whitfield Marcin Wodzinski MAURICE SAMUEL LIFE and LETTERS of a SECULAR JEWISH CONTRARIAN ALAN T. LEVENSON The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487- 0380 uapress.ua.edu Copyright © 2022 by the University of Alabama Press All rights reserved. Inquiries about reproducing material from this work should be addressed to the University of Alabama Press. Typeface: Warnock Pro Cover image: Maurice Samuel with his life’s work, 1967; courtesy of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio Cover design: Lori Lynch An earlier version of chapter 3 appeared in Modern Judaism as “From Translation to Transmission: A Chapter in the Odyssey of Maurice Samuel.” Cataloging- in- Publication data is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: 978- 0- 8173- 2130- 7 E- ISBN: 978- 0- 8173- 9409- 7 To Hilary, with love. Contents List of Figures / ix Acknowledgments / xi Introduction / 1 1. The Making and Unmaking of a British Jewish Gentleman / 17 2. The Fifty- Year Career of a Zionist Publicist / 41 3. Moish Samuel: Forgotten Yiddishist / 77 4. Polemics and Apologetics / 106 5. The Fiction of Jewish Essentialism Exposed: Samuel and the Hebrew Bible / 141 Epilogue / 166 Notes / 173 Bibliography / 201 Index / 211 Figures 1. Maurice Samuel, about age sixteen / 2 2. Maurice Samuel’s father, Isaac, 1905 / 18 3. Maurice Samuel at the annual Weizmann Institute Banquet, New York, 1964 / 42 4. Young Maurice Samuel, date unknown / 78 5. Maurice Samuel, 1939 / 107 6. Maurice Samuel with Mark Van Doren / 142 7. Maurice Samuel with his life’s work, 1967 / 167
The list of books you might like
