Maurice Samuels

Maurice Samuels is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale. His most recent book, Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair, was published last year. (June 2025)

Proust’s Jewish Question

The debate over Proust’s relation to his Jewish identity ultimately turns not just on his personal attachments but on how he represents Jewish characters in his novel.

Proust, a Jewish Way

by Antoine Compagnon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding

Marcel Proust: L’Adieu au monde juif [Marcel Proust: A Farewell to the Jewish World]

by Pierre Birnbaum

June 26, 2025 issue