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Maurice Samuels answers the Proust Questionnaire with Ulrich Baer and Caroline Weber
Proust Questionnaire Podcast 31: Maurice Samuels | Historian. Dec 13, 2020
Maurice Samuels discusses The Betrayal of the Duchess for The American Library in Paris
A virtual "Evening with an Author" hosted by the American Library in Paris featuring a lecture and presentation by Dr. Maurice Samuels about his new book, "The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal that Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern." Filmed via Zoom with a live audience on 08/12/2020.
Maurice Samuels discusses The Betrayal of the Duchess with Andrew Counter
Book talk for NCFS in Captivity, August 20, 2020
Maurice Samuels discusses The Betrayal of the Duchess with Caroline Weber
Cercle d’Amies group invites all FIAF Members to a special virtual literary evening with award-winning author Maurice Samuels. Book Talk for FIAF, June 22, 2020.
Maurice Samuels discusses “1832: The Year that Changed France”
It’s the year of the great cholera outbreak, France’s first anti-Semitic scandal, and a failed royalist revolution. It's also the setting for Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Maurice Samuels – who teaches the literature and culture of nineteenth-century France at Yale – explains why 1832 is a pivotal year that still impacts modern-day France. Jun 19, 2020
Conspiracy Theories, Class Tension, Political Intrigue: Lessons From France’s Mishandling of a 19th Century Cholera Outbreak
Opinion piece for Time on the cholera epidemic of 1832 and its lessons for today. May 15, 2020
Maurice Samuels Simon Deutz’s betrayal of the duchesse de Berry
Channeling Jewish Podcast with Joel Davidi, May 5, 2020
Maurice Samuels discusses the history behind Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
The Based on a True Story podcast with Dan LeFebvre, April 14, 2020
Maurice Samuels discusses French Jews in the nineteenth century.
A program at Temple Emanu-El (New York City) with Lisa Leff and Jay Berkovitz in December, 2019
Maurice Samuels discusses French universalism and the Jews
The Right to Difference: French Universalism & the Jews, a lecture given by Prof. Maurice Samuels, of Yale University's French Department, in December 2016.
Maurice Samuels discusses Jewish fiction in nineteenth-century France
We talk with Professor Samuels about his second book, Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France, which brings to light an almost totally unknown area of fiction in France. April 30, 2014
Maurice Samuels discusses Jewish fiction in nineteenth-century France (in French)
L’invité du jour : Maurice Samuels pour son livre « Les grands auteurs juifs de la littérature française au XIXe siècle. Streamed live on Jan 29, 2016