Samuel Judah

Samuel Benjamin Helbert Judah (1799 – 21 July 1876) was an American author, lawyer and poet. He was once imprisoned for libel.

Works His first play, a melodrama, The Mountain Torrent (1820) was a failure.

He also wrote, under the pen-name "Terentius Phlogobombos", a scurrilous account of the literary and political life of New York. The work Gotham and the Gothamites contained libellous statements about fellow playwright Mordacai Noah:

Despite the use of a pseudonym, Judah's authorship was discerned and he spent time in jail for criminal libel.

A number of freethinking biblical dramas of the 1830s are ascribed to him, but his authorship is doubtful.