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Maurice Samuel's Death Mourned by World Jewry
,onalities of the movement, in- which holds that newcomers hime-
eluding Chaim Weizmann (whose fit at the expense of the settled
acquaintance he had already made population and the poor.
Finance Minister Pinhas` S Mr,
at Manchester University). Chaim
Nacham Bialik, Sholom Aleichem. addressing Lhe convention of the
Shmarya Levin and Sholem Asch. Israeli Rotarian Club, cited the ec-
He ultimately to become ned growth of Israel's gross na ion-
Internationally recognized au-
thor critic and lecturer, he was
noted as a great English stylist.
For more than 50 years he had
devoted himself to w sting and lec-
turing on Jewish themes, and was
widelv known in the t'nited States,
Canada, Europe, Africa and Israel.
the translator of Bialik, Levin, , al product and observed that ",ere
Asch and Sholom Aleichem (the It not for aliya these aehieveni_nts
would have been impossible "
last in a treatment of the body
The author of 25 books, a num-
ber of which have received awards,
he was at work on his 26th volume
His last hook. "In Praise of Yid-
dish", appeared in 1971.
of his work, rather than a trans-
Winn).
Sapir acknowledged Israel's
severe social problems and warn-
ed that unless they are stilted
"the whole future of the Sthte
is in doubt." But he predicted
that it would take a generation
The greater part of Maurice
Samuel's labors have been devoted
to Jewish themes, but he has been
deeply interested in the historical
themes of the Renaissance and of , to close all the social and ecoho-
Imperial Rome (period of Trajan), : mic gaps between Western and
Funeral servieeS, on Sunday,
were conducted by Rabbi Ira
Eisenstein of the Society for the
Advancement of Judaism. The
MAURICE SAMUEL
to which he devoted novels. ; Oriental Israelis,
eulogy was given by Dr Abraham
Absorption Minister' Natan Pieled
After two years in the American
Sachar, chancellor of Brandeis Urn-
and I,ouis A. Pincus, chairman of
Meyer II. Welsgal. Chan- Leld-Wolf Award for ''The World
Army (1917 - 19). Mr. Samuel
Versity
the Jewish Agency Executive, ad.
of Sholom Aleichem," the 1944 served as secretary and interpreter
cellor of the Weil mann Institute Of
dressed a meeting of the L box -
Scien e e. Mr. Samuel's closest award of the Saturday Review of at the Versailles Peace Confer-
Party Secretariat here and 'both
as prevented by illness Literature: in 1956, the Stephen S.
ence a n d subsequently in the
friend. w
cabled Wise Award: in 1967 the Bnai same capacity on the Morgenthau
from Ica, ing Israel. A-
g e Award.
Commission to Investigate the pog-
eulogy was read in his behalf. Brith Herita
Brandeis IThiversity in 1964 con-
roms in Poland. Beginning with
Others who spoke briefly included
his return to America in 1921,
Dr. Louis Kaplan, Prof. Mark Van (erred on him an honorary degree
Mr. Samuel entered the employ
Doren, with whom he shared an of doctor of humane letters.
of the Zionist Organization as a
NBC radio network program on
Maurice
Books and Translations by
Samuel
include.
writer
and propagandist. In 1929.
"The Bible'", and Rabbi Alexander
::n 9 h 2 a1,7 ' Mr. Samuel became a free-lance
, nkI:d,..j. hie 92 1itirer. ( " ;
eytt
3.1 Schindler. vice president of The
lecturer on Jewish themes, cover-
the Jek," 192.7; "Vhat '. 7-lapp 8Rned
Enion of American Hebrew Con-
Palestine." 1929; ' - King Mob," 1930 (un- , ing the united States and Canada
gregations.
der the pseudonym, Frank K. Notch);
as well as England and South
the
Wilderness."
1931:
the
Him
of
Mr Samuel is survived by his "On
Africa. He retired from lecturing
;17(.7d"
widow, the former Edith Brodsky, ;i!„'"
„,1, n
,w hom
horn
he married in 1961; two 1940: "The World of Sholom Aleirhernl" in 1970, but continued his literary
activity.
children of his first marriage, Mrs. .
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The Bible exercised a profound
Chester Rapkin of New York and Ghetto," 1948; - The Gentleman and the
neru
influence on his thought and
Gershon. of Israel: six grandchil.
1 . 95 ". 2 . ; "Level Sun ' light," 1953; "Certain
dren, four of them studying in People or the Book." 1955: "The prore,- imagination. One section of "The I •
The Second
sor anti the to.‘ii. tsss,
Gentleman and the Jew" is a
Israel and a sister. Mrs Dora
1 960; s -1-ittle Did I Know,"
at on .•• 1966; "Light
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powerful evocation of the message
Leigh
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eigh of Manchester. England. His l ' srsu sr-liT
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of Yiddh
is "
on Israel," 1968; '-ln 1 "raise
-4, first marriage to Gertrude Kahn ' 1971:
of the Prophets. lie devoted his
entire volume. "Certain People
was terminated by divorce
"The Selected Poems of
On the day of his death, Mr, . . maim
of the Book" (1955), to witty spec-
Je wi sh
A ricttnTl a
4 y BoT ik 1F35mo
19 n111, Fle T gh':
ey illations and charming embroi-
Samuel was to have received in
, 'r rl d in t e Slaking, "
i li i,2,5r. ; n T nhe k.,14
Yid-
deries on famous a n d timeles
Israel the Manger Prize in Yid-
i ng i. (?9•11;
2
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".. ' innb ey
Hermann Ke5 . 1'erl'in
literature,
terature, nominated by
" . Biblical personalities
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Mr Samuel had a close associa. ' .1:Inger. 1916; "The River Breaks Up•" by
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1938; "Lag, of d
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lion with Dr Chaim Weizmann and ' I J. Singer, 1939; "ehilhood
with the Wetzmann Institute of bY Shmarya Levin. 1929; "South In Re
$1,200,000 to Aid Poor
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suit n• by Shmarya Lev In
Science, in a consultative capacity, Are a," by Shmarya Levin , 1930.
1931; "T
"The
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Hagada," 1940; -The Lights'
Passover
since its founding.
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Samuel explored the Bible with ---rbeou ...- lier-=1.- by ixix H.q.. 1941;
:Isigid.7 .,. .an zare .i t ie,;0 12 , 3; Lholt: .m i , . 4sch. Ira:: long study by authorization of an
Prof. Mark Van Doren on a widely
allocation of $1.200,000 from its
heard radio program carried over Awls. 1942; The Zporle." b' SSIIrol:mm
Awl.. 1943; "Muses," by Sholem Asra, emergency fund to expand its ex-
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the NBC network. Both also ap- 1943.
- . g programs for the J 'II
peared on numerous occasions on
Maurice Samuel was born in poor and innovate others on an
the NBC-TV network.
Macin, Romania, Feb. 8, 1895, experimental basis.
lie received in 1943 the Anis• of a working-class. Yiddish-speak-
k' s inner
The p g ht of
o New • York'
7.-..4.140.4,-***-10 11- 1 1**********V ing family, which gave him his city Jews recently has
created iNg
first attachment to his people and
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America in 19141 and came in
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intimate contact with the Jewish
life of New York's East Side. There and Jewish Agency leaders are education and information to it
he breams a conscious Zionist and trying to counter a rising HMI, of move the feeling.; of hostility tr,_
immigration ; ward new immigrants.
against
Ile met some of the leading per- sentiment
NEW YORK — Maurice Samuel.
dean of American Jewish Authors,
died at Beth Israel "Hospital here
after a protracted illness, on May
4 He was 77 He used in New
York at 515 W End Ave
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