I, The Jew

Samuel, Maurice (February 8, 1895 Macin, Tulcea County, Romania - May 4, 1972 United States)

Published by Harcourt, New York, 1927

About this Item

viii, 275 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Foredge and bottom edge untrimmed. At least a couple of pages still uncut. Wear to tips of boards and top and bottom of spine, blank preceding title page is partly detached. Dust jacket now consists of three sections: front and two flaps. See images here. Maurice Samuel (February 8, 1895 Macin, Tulcea County, Romania - May 4, 1972 United States) was a Romanian-born British and American novelist, translator and lecturer. At age 5 he moved to Paris with his parents, Isaac Samuel and Fanny Acker, at c. six they moved to England where he studied at the Victoria University. Around 1914 he left England for the United States where he remained for the rest of his life. His best known work You Gentiles was published in 1924. Most of his work concerns Judaism or the Jew's role in history and modern society, but he also wrote more conventional fiction, such as The Web of Lucifer, which takes place during the Borgias' rule of Renaissance Italy, and the fantasy science-fiction novel The Devil that Failed. Samuel also wrote the nonfiction King Mob under the pseudonym "Frank K. Notch". He and his work received acclaim within the Jewish community during his lifetime, including the 1944 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his non-fiction work, The World of Sholom Aleichem. He received the Itzik Manger Prize for Yiddish literature posthumously in 1972. Seller Inventory # 014200

Bibliographic Details

Title: I, The Jew

Publisher: Harcourt, New York

Publication Date: 1927

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Poor