Gordon, Samuel

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GORDON, SAMUEL

GORDON, SAMUEL (1871–1927), English novelist. Gordon began his literary career while secretary of the London Great Synagogue. His Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry (1900) saw the best solution to the "ghetto" problem in a combination of religious Orthodoxy and social and educational advancement. Gordon also wrote stories of Jewish life in Russia: The New Galatea (1901), and The Lost Kingdom; or, the Passing of the Khazars (1926), a historical romance.

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