Samuel Roth
(1893-1974)
American publisher
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Samuel Roth (1893–1974) was an American publisher, writer, and plaintiff in Roth v. United States (1957), a key Supreme Court ruling on freedom of sexual expression and whose minority opinion, regarding redeeming social value as a criterion in obscenity prosecutions, became a template for the liberalizing First Amendment decisions in the 1960s.
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1893 "Nustscha" (now Nuszcze) near Zboriv, formerly Galicia now Ukraine
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| Died |
3 July 1974 (aged 81)
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