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Lesson 7 of 9·The New York Intellectuals: The First Generation

Maurice Samuel

It was Maurice Samuel who first forged the path of the career Jewish public intellectual in America. In this lecture, Professor Wisse discusses his storied life and vast literary output. Samuel was a bracing writer with bold arguments, and one of the most persuasive advocates of the Zionist cause in American history.

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Dr. Ruth Wisse
Dr. Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literatures at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah. Her memoir Free as a Jew: a Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, chapters of which appeared in Mosaic in somewhat different form, is out from Wicked Son…