[Samuel, Maurice] Hindus, Milton (Ed.).

The Worlds of Maurice Samuel. Selected Writings. Edited and with an Introduction by Milton Hindus. Foreword by Cynthia Ozick.

First Edition. Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977. 16 cm x 24 cm. xxxii, 445 (5) pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Deckled edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor spots on the edge and the dust jacket.

Includes for Example: My Virgilian Uncle/ The Twig is Bent/ The Eruption/ The Zionist/ Jerusalem, the Heart of Infinity/ At the Wailing Wall/ Liberating the Fellah/ The Haunted Land/ Zionism Reborn/ Contra Toynbee/ Suppressio Veri/ Suggestio Falsi/ Digression on an Astronomer/ The Great Hatred/ The Evasion/ Fury and Fable/ The Birth of Bugaboo/ The Collusion of Your Churchment/ The People and the Land/ The Claim/ The Occupants/ The Diaspora of the West/ Blood Accusation: Echoes After Fifty Years/ Teachers and Friends/ Chaim Weizmann/ Shmarya Levin and Chaim Nachman Bialik/ Meir of Kikkle/ Transmitting Jewish Values/ The Maggid/ The Nature of Jewish Monotheism/ The Ethos and Technique of Survival/ The Prophets and the Nation/ The Manager: Rebekah/ The Comic As Fool: Ahasuerus/ The Prophet Elijah/ Interpreter of Yiddish/ The World of Sholom Aleichem/ Of Certain Grandfathers/ Man in a Forest/ Tevye the Dairyman/ The Judgment of Reb Yozifel/ Death in Exile/ Peretz on Hasidic Ecstasy/ Dales (Poverty)/ “Translators and Traitors”/ Al Harei Catskil/ My Three Mother-Tongues/ The Concealments of Marcel: Proust’s Jewishness/ My Friend, the Late Moses Herzog etc.

This comprehensive presentation of Samuel’s far-ranging accomplishment is divided into seven sections: Beginnings, The Zionist, Jews Among the Nations, Teachers and Friends, Transmitting Jewish Values, Interpreter of Yiddish, and Writer and Reader. It contains thirty-one selections, taken from twelve books, including such titles as “The Gentleman and the Jew”, “Harvest in the Desert”, “The Great Hatred”, “The Professor and the Fossil”, “Prince of the Ghetto”, “Blood Accusation”, and of course, “The World of Sholom Aleichem”. There are also examples of Samuel’s criticism, journalism, and belles lettres. Together they form a pentrating exploration of the Jewish ethos and constitute a record of a remarkable sensibility.

• Keywords: Catalogue No.8 – Judaica Collection · Jewish Culture · Jewish History – Rare · Judaica · Judaica – Collection · Judaica – Rare · Judaism
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827600917
• Inventory Number: 44861AB

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