1060813Maurice Samuelhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/maurice-samuel-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/664395/6a3efc56-fc76-4e47-9001-56886933bb68.jpg?v=6383357083193300008111127MXNUniversity of Alabama PressInStock/Ebooks/An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth centuryIn Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian, Alan T. Levenson captures the life, works, and milieu of the Romanian-born, English-educated, American belletrist Maurice Samuel. A diaspora intellectualor a rooted cosmopolitan, as Levenson describes himSamuel made an indelible mark on many features of contemporary Jewish thought and culture. A generalist in an age of experts, an independent scholar in an age of rabbis and professors, Samuel was one of the most productive and visible members of the group dubbed the other New York Jewish intellectuals.His fame as a public intellectual and popular speaker were well warranted: no mere popularizer, Samuel contributed significantly to four seemingly unrelated but critical areas of modern Jewish thought. Samuel is characterized by some as principally a Zionist, by others as an accomplished translator and many Americans first entrée into the world of Yiddish literature, by still others as a polemicist and campaigner against anti-Semitism, and finally as a media-savvy Biblical critic, essayist, and radio personality. But he was all of these things, since Samuel succeeded in an era when it was possible to be a public intellectual without being an expert.Drawing on Samuels vast literary opus, as well as previously unexplored archival material from three continents, this study writes Samuel back into the history of mid-twentieth-century American letters. Levenson argues that Samuels varied and substantive contributions demand reconsideration of our assumptions about the means and ends of cultural transmission, and merit him a place as one of twentieth-century American Jewrys most significant cultural and intellectual voices....1055671Maurice Samuel8111127https://www.gandhi.com.mx/maurice-samuel-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/664395/6a3efc56-fc76-4e47-9001-56886933bb68.jpg?v=638335708319330000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20229780817394097_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9780817394097_An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth centuryIn Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian, Alan T. Levenson captures the life, works, and milieu of the Romanian-born, English-educated, American belletrist Maurice Samuel. A diaspora intellectualor a rooted cosmopolitan, as Levenson describes himSamuel made an indelible mark on many features of contemporary Jewish thought and culture. A generalist in an age of experts, an independent scholar in an age of rabbis and professors, Samuel was one of the most productive and visible members of the group dubbed the other New York Jewish intellectuals.His fame as a public intellectual and popular speaker were well warranted: no mere popularizer, Samuel contributed significantly to four seemingly unrelated but critical areas of modern Jewish thought. Samuel is characterized by some as principally a Zionist, by others as an accomplished translator and many Americans first entrée into the world of Yiddish literature, by still others as a polemicist and campaigner against anti-Semitism, and finally as a media-savvy Biblical critic, essayist, and radio personality. But he was all of these things, since Samuel succeeded in an era when it was possible to be a public intellectual without being an expert.Drawing on Samuels vast literary opus, as well as previously unexplored archival material from three continents, this study writes Samuel back into the history of mid-twentieth-century American letters. Levenson argues that Samuels varied and substantive contributions demand reconsideration of our assumptions about the means and ends of cultural transmission, and merit him a place as one of twentieth-century American Jewrys most significant cultural and intellectual voices....9780817394097_University of Alabama Presslibro_electonico_0163cce9-91b3-3437-b2c0-1975de14a934_9780817394097;9780817394097_9780817394097Alan T.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-f3289be2-f602-4ba2-ad90-d096ee518784.epub2022-07-28T00:00:00+00:00University of Alabama Press