Maurice Samuel

Maurice Samuel (1895–1972) was a Romanian-born British and American novelist, translator, playwright, essayist, and lecturer of Jewish heritage, best known for his non-fiction works on Judaism, Zionism, Yiddish culture, and antisemitism, including the acclaimed The World of Sholom Aleichem (1943), which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and You Gentiles (1924). A prominent Zionist activist and champion of Yiddish literature, he received additional honors such as the Stephen Wise Award (1956), B’nai B’rith Jewish Heritage Award (1967), and posthumous Itzik Manger Prize for Yiddish literature (1972), MacDowell, JTA.