Israel Zangwill (February 14, 1864 - August 1, 1926) was an English-born Zionist, humourist and writer. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about Zionism as a movement, not the History of Israel. ...

Biography

Born to a Russian émigré who had escaped persecution and death in a Czarist military prison, he dedicated his life to championing the cause of the oppressed. Jewish emancipation, women's suffrage and Zionism (understood as a national liberation movement) were all fertile fields for his pen. His brother was also a writer, the novelist Louis Zangwill,^[1] and his son was the prominent British psychologist, Oliver Zangwill. Dates of Jewish emancipation. ... The term womens suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. ... Louis Zangwill (July 25, 1869 – 1938) was an English novelist; born at Bristol, England. ... Psychological science redirects here. ... Oliver Louis Zangwill (29 October 1913 - 12 October 1987) was Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, 1952-81, then Professor Emeritus. ...

Zangwill received his early schooling in Plymouth and Bristol. When nine years old he was enrolled in the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields, a private school for Jewish immigrant children. The school offered a strict course of secular and Jewish studies while supplying clothing, food, and health care for the scholars, and today one of its four houses is named Zangwill in his honour. At this school young Israel excelled and taught part-time, finally becoming a full-fledged teacher. While teaching, he studied for his degree in 1884 from London University, earning a BA with triple honours. School staff in the 1930s Jewish Free School (also known as JFS) is a Jewish secondary school in Kingsbury, north London. ... Christ Church, Spitalfields Spitalfields, an area in Tower Hamlets, east London near to Liverpool Street station and Brick Lane which gets its name from a contraction of hospital fields, as there used to be a major hospital in the area. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administration offices and its library The University of London, founded in 1836, is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ...

In later life, his friends included Jerome K. Jerome and H. G. Wells. He wrote a very influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892). The use of the metophorical phrase melting pot to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularised by Zangwill's play The Melting Pot^[2] , a hit in the USA in 1908 – 1909. The latter received its most recent production at New York's Metropolitan Playhouse, March 2006. His simulation of Yiddish sentence structure in English aroused great interest. He also wrote mystery works, such as The Big Bow Mystery, and social satire such as The King of Schnorrers (1894), a picaresque novel. His Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898) includes essays on famous Jews such as Spinoza, Heinrich Heine and Ferdinand Lassalle. Jules Furthman adapted one of his plays for the 1931 Janet Gaynor film Merely Mary Ann, about an orphan and a composer. Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859 – June 14, 1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. ... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ... Alternate meaning: crucible (science) The melting pot is a metaphor for the way in which heterogenous societies develop, in which the ingredients in the pot (iron, tin; people of different backgrounds and religions, etc. ... The Melting Pot is a play by Israel Zangwill, first staged in 1908. ... Baruch Spinoza Benedictus de Spinoza (November 24, 1632 - February 21, 1677), named Baruch Spinoza by his synagogue elders and known as Bento de Spinoza or Bento dEspiñoza in the community in which he grew up. ... Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. ... Ferdinand Lassalle Ferdinand Lassalle (April 11, 1825 — August 31, 1864) was a German jurist and socialist political activist. ... Jules Furthman (March 5, 1888 - September 22, 1966) was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter. ... Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress who, in 1928, became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress. ... Merely Mary Ann is a 1931 romantic comedy drama film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. ...

Zangwill is falsely known for coining the slogan "A land without a people for a people without a land" describing Zionist aspirations in the Land of Israel. Actually, the phrase was coined by the British Christian statesman, Lord Shaftsbury. The Land of Israel (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, Masoretic: ʼẸretz Yiśrāēl, Hebrew Academy: Éreẓ Yisrael, Yiddish: ) is the divinely ordained and given territory by God as an eternal inheritance to the Jewish people. ...

After first having supported Theodor Herzl and Zionism, Zangwill, a British Jew, broke up with the movement and founded his own organization, called the Jewish Territorialist Organization in 1905, the aim of which was to create a Jewish homeland in whatever possible territory in the world (and not necessarily in what today is the state of Israel). Zangwill died in 1926 in Midhurst, West Sussex after trying to create the Jewish state in such diverse places as Canada, Australia, Mesopotamia, Uganda and Cyrenaica. Theodor Herzl, in his middle age. ... List of British Jews is a list that includes Jewish people from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. ... The Jewish Territorialist Organization, known as ITO, was a Jewish nationalist movement formed in 1903. ... For other uses, see 1905 (disambiguation). ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... , Midhurst is a market town in the English county of West Sussex, with a population of approximately 5000. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq. ... The Roman Empire ca. ...

Israel Zangwill features as a recurring character in the novels of Will Thomas. Will Thomas (Born 1958 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania) is a novelist who writes a Victorian mystery series featuring Cyrus Barker, a Scottish detective or private enquiry agent, and his Welsh assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. ...

See also

• Territorialism

Territorialism was a Jewish political movement calling for creation of a sufficiently large and compact Jewish territory (or territories), not necessarily in the Land of Israel and not necessarily fully autonomous. ...

References

• King of Schnorrers:preface by Edward J. Fluck

External links

• Israel Zangwill and Children of the Ghetto
• Israel Zangwill
• 1911 Encyclopedia
• The Zionist Exposition
• Jewish Virtual Library
• Internet Broadway Database
• Without Prejudice
• Jewish Museum in London
• Works by Israel Zangwill at Project Gutenberg
• A reading of The King of Schnorrers
• A reading of The Big Bow Mystery