Maurice Samuel was a Romania

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n-born British

United Kingdom

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 and American

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 novelist, translator and lecturer.

A Jewish and Zionist

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 intellectual, he is best known for his work You Gentiles, published in 1924. Most of his work concerns Judaism

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 and 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 under the Borgias' rule in Renaissance Italy

Italian Renaissance

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 and the fantasy

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/science-fiction novel The Devil that Failed. He and his work won a little bit of acclaim in the Jewish community during his lifetime. (Maurice Samuel also wrote the nonfiction King Mob under the pseudonym "Frank K. Notch.")

Early life

Born in Măcin

Macin

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, Tulcea County

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, to Isaac Samuel and Fanny Acker, Maurice moved to Paris

Paris

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 with his family at the age of five and about a year later to Victoria University

University of Manchester

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. Eventually, he left England and from 1914 he remained in America.

Quotes

• "We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction." - You Gentiles, Page 147.

• "Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world: Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable..." - You Gentiles, page 9

• "I cannot find an underlying difference between the moral purpose of the Old Testament and the New, between Judaism and Christianity, between Bachya ibn Pakudah's 'Duties of the Heart' and Boethius's 'Consolation of Philosophy' or Thomas à Kempis's 'Imitation of Christ'. There is, on the contrary, a deep and moving similarity of spirit between Israel Baal Shem, the founder of Chassidism, and Francis of Assisi
  Francis of Assisi
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  , though the former had never heard of the latter, and had never looked into the New Testament. What is perhaps more important for my thesis, the gentleness and warmth that I have found in plain Jewish homes in Manchester, New York, Warsaw, Vilna, Johannesburg, I have found also among gentile Lancashire
  Lancashire
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   weavers, and midwest American farmers, and French peasants—all deriving from the same tradition." - Gentleman and the Jew, pages 203-204.

Fiction

• The Outsider (1921)
• Whatever Gods (1923)
• Beyond Woman (1934)
• Web of Lucifer (1947)
• The Devil that Failed (1952)
• The Second Crucifixion (1960)

Non-fiction

• You Gentiles (1924)
• I, the Jew (1927)
• What Happened in Palestine: The Events of August, 1929: Their Background and Significance
• King Mob: A Study of the Present-Day Mind (1931)
• On the Rim of the Wilderness: The Conflict in Palestine (1931)
• Jews on Approval (1932)
• The Great Hatred (1940)
• The World of Sholom Aleichem (1943)
• Harvest in the Desert (1944)
• Haggadah of Passover (1947) (translation)
• Prince of the Ghetto (1948)
• The Gentleman and the Jew (1950)
• Level Sunlight (1953)
• Certain People of the Book (1955)
• Little Did I Know: Recollections and Reflections (1963)
• Blood Accustation: the Strange History of the Beiliss Case (1966)
• Light on Israel (1968)
• In Praise of Yiddish (1971)
• In the Beginning, Love: Dialogues on the Bible (collaboration) (1975)