Maurice L Samuel

Harvest in the Desert

The Book of Praise: Dialogues on the Psalms

The World of Sholom Aleichem

In Praise of Yiddish

Childhood in Exile

Youth in Revolt

The World of Sholom Aleichem

Certain People of the Book

Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)

Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century―fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering ...

The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews

Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country’s Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious affiliations. This timely book offers a fresh pers...

The world of Sholom Aleichem

Prince of the ghetto

Maurice Samuel presents to the English-reading audience one of the richest spirits of the Yiddish language to appear at the beginning of the twentieth century. Through the writings of Isaac Loeb Peretz, he provides access to the lost and lamented world of Polish Jewry. Peretz's folk and Chassidic ta...

Certain people of the Book

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally impor...

Certain People of the Book

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally impor...

You Gentiles

Written in 1924, this shocking classic work of Jewish Supremacism maps out what the avowedly Zionist author saw as the cause of anti-Semitism through the ages: an irreconcilable difference between Jews and all Gentiles, but Europeans in particular. This difference, Samuel argued, was inherent and bi...

Certain People of the Book

With brilliantly discerning comment and always engaging intepretation, Maurice Samuel has retold the tales of Old Testament characters -- some of them so familiar by name as to be household words, some scarcely known at all except to Bible students. Entertaining, englightening, and wise