Maurice Samuel

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Maurice Samuel (born February 8, 1895 in Măcin , Romania ; died May 4, 1972 in New York City ) was an American author and translator of Romanian-Jewish origin.

Life

Maurice Samuel, son of Isaac Samuel and Fanny Acker, moved with his parents from Romania to Paris around 1900 , from there to Manchester , where he graduated from school and attended Manchester University . There he met the chemistry professor Chaim Weizmann for the first time . Samuel broke off his studies, stayed in Paris for a while and emigrated to the USA in 1914 after the outbreak of the First World War . When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, he was a soldier in the American Expeditionary Forces in the theater of war in France. After the war he was part of the commission set up by Henry Morgenthau senior to investigate the pogroms in Poland , which in October 1919 presented the Morgenthau Report . In Paris he worked as a translator at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 and then for the Reparations Commission in Berlin and Vienna. Samuel returned to the United States in 1921 and published his first novel, The Outsider . He worked for the Zionist Organization of America and in particular for the chairman of the World Zionist Organization Weizmann in the 1920s . He later wrote his autobiography with Weizmann. Samuel attended the meetings of the Zionist Congresses in the United States. In the 1930s he stayed primarily in Palestine as an author and “ maggid ” (political speaker) .

Samuel wrote novels and epics as well as historical non-fiction and books on current political issues in Judaism. In 1925, his play The Wanderer was made into a film by Raoul Walsh . He translated Yiddish literature into English, for example poems by Chaim Nachman Bialik in 1926 , as well as works by Scholem Alejchem , Jizchok Leib Perez , Israel Joschua Singer ( Di brider Ashkenasi , 1936) and Isaac Bashevis Singer .

Samuel also translated the Haggadah into English from Aramaic and Hebrew .

He translated Edmond Fleg's Jewish anthology from the French . In 1929 he translated the anonymous anti-war novel Schlump from German into English. In the time of National Socialism he supported the emigrants from Europe. He was friends with Erika Mann and Klaus Mann and translated The lights go down for Erika , and for Martin Gumpert Heil Hunger! : health under Hitler , for Emil Ludwig Roosevelt. A study in fortune and power , for Alex Bein his Theodor Herzl biography, for Schalom Asch My personal faith and for Soma Morgenstern The testament of the lost son .

With Mark Van Doren , he hosted a radio series about characters from the Bible in the 1950s. Among his awards was the Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature.

Fonts (selection)

Works
  • The Outsider (1921)
  • Whatever Gods (1923)
  • Beyond Woman (1934)
  • Web of Lucifer: A novel of the Borgia fury (1947)
  • The Devil that Failed (1952)
  • The Second Crucifixion (1960)
Non-fiction
  • The ABC of Zionism: A simple outline of the history, aims and growth of the Zionist movement and its principal instruments . New York: Zionist Organization of America, 1923
  • 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 web of evil . German Transfer by Ilse Krämer . Zurich: Humanitas Verl., 1949
  • The World of Sholom Aleichem (1943)
  • Harvest in the Desert (1944)
  • Haggadah of Passover (1947)
  • Prince of the Ghetto (1948) - biography about Jizchok Leib Perez
  • The Gentleman and the Jew . Autobiography. New York, button, 1950
  • Level Sunlight (1953)
  • Certain People of the Book (1955)
  • The professor and the fossil; some observations on Arnold J. Toynbee's A study of history . New York, Knopf, 1956
  • 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 (1975)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Louis Kaplan: On Maurice Samuel's twenty-fifth Yahrzeit - death anniversary of Jewish author , in: Judaism, 1997
  2. ↑ a b Maurice Samuel. Author. Essayist, translator. Dies at Age 77 , obituary at JTA , May 5, 1972
  3. ^ Haggadah of Passover , 1942
  4. ↑ on Menahem Mendel Beilis see English Wikipedia en: Menahem Mendel Beilis
personal data
SURNAME Samuel, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Măcin , Romania
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1972
Place of death New York City