Maurice Samuel

An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century   In 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 intellectual—or a rooted cosmopolitan, as Levenson describes him—Samuel made an indelible mark on many features of contemporary Jewish thought and culture. A generalist in an a