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Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill 1864-1926, English author, b. London. He became a journalist and founded Ariel, a humorous paper. Zangwill wrote Children of the Ghetto (1892), later dramatized and performed in England and America, and Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898), a series of biographical studies. His other... Read more
Zionism
Zionism modern political movement for reconstituting a Jewish national state in Palestine. Early Years The rise of the Zionist movement in the late 19th cent. was influenced by nationalist currents in Europe, as well as by the secularization of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, which led man... Read more

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Israel Zangwill
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Israel Zangwill The Jewish author and philosopher Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an influential leader of English Jewry and a Zionist activist. Israel Zangwill was born in London. His family, Russian Jews, lived... Read more
Zangwill, Israel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Zangwill, Israel (1864–1926), a noted Jewish spokesman, writer, and translator. The popular novel Children of the Ghetto (1892) established... Read more
“Melting Pot,”
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...different races that have immigrated to the U.S. An early suggestion of the phrase occurs in Crèvecoeur's essay, “What Is an American?” It is used as the title of a play by Israel Zangwill, the 19th‐century English author. Read more
Zionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the Territorialists led by Israel Zangwill, withdrew on the grounds that...the Holocaust and Founding of Israel After World War II the Zionist...to partition Palestine (see Israel ). After the Jewish state was...simple expression of support for Israel was sufficient for affiliation... Read more
Assimilation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Anglo‐Saxon core.” The “melting pot” stance (the term is from a popular 1908 play by Israel Zangwill) foresaw a mixing of peoples that would produce a new American culture. From the eighteenth century on, the third... Read more
Al Jolson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...desire to become a performer. In 1900 Jolson left Washington, D.C., for New York. His first job on the stage was in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto, in which he played one of the mob. He also sang in a circus sideshow and finally teamed... Read more
Solomon ben Judah ibn Gabirol
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the medieval Cabala, or Jewish mystic lore. Further Reading Israel Davidson, ed. The Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn...Gabirol's poetic works, including his Keter Malkhut, translated by Israel Zangwill. Abraham E. Millgram, ed., The Anthology of Medieval Hebrew... Read more
Sabbatai Zevi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Katzenstein (pseudonym: Josef Kastein), The Messiah of Ismir: Sabbatai Zevi (1930; trans. 1931). He is discussed in Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898), and Solomon Schechter, Studies in Judaism (1958). □ Read more
QUOTATION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!— Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot , 1908. Without quotation marks and with parentheses , etc. The most important thing to know about... Read more

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Melting Pot
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History MELTING POT MELTING POT is a term that originated in Israel Zangwill's 1908 drama, The Melting Pot. It examined the American...nineteenth century, but the term was not popularized until Zangwill's play. The term is flexible and could mean "melting... Read more
Assimilation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...diverse European peoples into a new, single people. Israel Zangwill's eponymous 1908 play made "melting pot" the twentieth...espoused various forms of Zionism throughout his life, Zangwill nevertheless presented, as the outcome of life in the... Read more

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Israel Zangwill and Children of the Ghetto.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; WHEN ISRAEL ZANGWILL'S CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO first appeared...Jewish and English literary history. Israel Zangwill was born on January 21, 1864, in...s immigrant children. [11] Moses Zangwill, Israel's father, supported his large family... Read more
A Jew in the public arena; the career of Israel Zangwill.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 140 words ; ...the public arena; the career of Israel Zangwill. Rochelson, Meri-Jane. Wayne State...Jewish homeland somewhere other than Israel, Jewish assimilation, women's suffrage...The book includes a chronology of Zangwill's life (1864-1926) and that of... Read more
ISRAEL: SOLDIER KILLED BY MISSILE IN LEBANON.(Rafael Zangwill killed)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 1/27/2000; 50 words ; According to Israel Line, Israel Defense Forces Sgt. Rafael Zangwill was killed on Tuesday after Hizbullah fired anti-tank...Rotem base in the security zone, HA'ARETZ reported. Zangwill, age 24 and member of the Givati infantry brigade... Read more
Revising the Late Victorian and Early Modernist Canon: A review article.(The Creators)(Dreams, Visions and Realities: Short Stories by Late-Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers)(Dreams: Three Works)(The History of Sir Richard Calmady)(Anna Lombard)(Keynotes and Discords)(The Romance of a Shop)(Children of the Ghetto)(In Darkest London: A Social Documentary of the East End in the 1880s)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...1-900355-28-0. Children of the Ghetto. By Israel Zangwill. Cambridge: Black Apollo Press...s In Darkest London (1889) and Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto (1895...separates the human from the beast. Zangwill's mission is to 'humanize' the... Read more
Lake effect.(M.E.M.O)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 12/28/2004; ; 549 words ; ...words 'loft' and 'lofty'), meaning 'air,' plus 'mensch,' meaning 'human being.' The pioneer Jewish-American novelist Israel Zangwill imported it in 1907, when he described someone who was not an earth-man.... He was an airman, floating on facile... Read more
The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...suffering. Chapter 7 is devoted to Israel Zangwill's 'Joseph the Dreamer (1898), the...dramatized in both the life and work of Zangwill (p.137). In a vain attempt to reconcile...dual identity as an English Jew, Zangwill first married a non-Jewish woman... Read more
Samih K. Farsoun and Naseer Aruri. Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...no surprise that the authors utilize the work of the Israeli sociologist, Baruch Kimmerling, who was among the first in Israel to challenge the main foundations of official Israeli historiography in the early 1970s, by apply theories...refugees in Arab countries, the Palestinians living within ... Read more
Usable past.(SHELF LIFE)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/6/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Sense and George C. Marshall's Plan to rebuild Europe; others explore less familiar stories, like those of playwright Israel Zangwill (author of The Melting-Pot) and African-American historian Carter G. Woodson. In telling his tales, Baldwin shows... Read more
How to prepare for tomorrow's workforce. (excerpt from 'Understanding Cultural Diversity')
Magazine article from: Corrections Today; 8/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...destination of choice for immigrants. Two-thirds of all global migration is into the United States. In 1908, playwright Israel Zangwill made the now famous statement: America. It's God's crucible; the great melting pot where all the races of Europe... Read more
Encyclopedia of Jewish American literature.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 167 words ; ...Entries on historically- significant and contemporary writers of fiction, poetry, and drama, from Sholem Aleichem to Israel Zangwill, include biographical background, works, influences, legacy, and references. Work-based entries include a synopsis... Read more