Samuel Ornitz would not have claimed to be a dedicated or professional man of letters, because he had too many other concerns which he considered sometimes more important than his writing. As a result...
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Samuel Badisch Ornitz was born in New York City, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants. Raised on New York's Lower East Side, a setting that dominates two of his novels, he became committed to social ca...
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Samuel (Badisch) Ornitz