Skip to product information
1 of 1

Robin Michell

The Writings of Israel Zangwill

The Writings of Israel Zangwill

Regular price $0.99 USD
Regular price Sale price $0.99 USD
Sale Sold out
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Quantity
Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, to Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland. He dedicated his life to championing the cause of the oppressed. Jewish emancipation, women's suffrage, assimilationism, territorialism and Zionism (a Jewish liberation movement) were all fertile fields for his pen. (wiki)

The Writings of Israel Zangwill:
Merely Mary Ann
Children of the Ghetto
Without Prejudice

Zangwill wrote a very influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892). The use of the metaphorical phrase melting pot to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularised by Zangwill's play The Melting Pot, a hit in the United States in 1909-10.
View full details