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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...
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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...
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Zionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...opposition, the Territorialists led by Israel Zangwill, withdrew on the grounds that an...Since the Holocaust and Founding of Israel After World War II the Zionist movement...plan to partition Palestine (see Israel ). After the Jewish state was proclaimed...
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Solomon ben Judah ibn Gabirol
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...medieval Cabala, or Jewish mystic lore. Further Reading Israel Davidson, ed. The Selected Religious Poems of Solomon...works, including his Keter Malkhut, translated by Israel Zangwill. Abraham E. Millgram, ed., The Anthology of Medieval...
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Sabbatai Zevi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...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). □
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Bagel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...the seven days of mourning that follow. The round shape symbolizes the round of life. The beuglich described in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto (1892) as "circular twisted rolls" suggest the obwarzanek, a twisted, fresh ring...
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QUOTATION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...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...
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Assimilation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...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...
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Al Jolson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...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...
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Melting Pot
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...based on cross-ethnic amalgamation eventually came to include nearly all European nationalities. British writer Israel Zangwill ’ s (1864 – 1926) early twentieth-century play The Melting Pot was the first to use the term...
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