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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levenson, Alan T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2022]
Colección:Jews and Judaism: history and culture
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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