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Israel Zangwill
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14 February 1864 - 1 August 1926
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Israel Zangwill (pronounced Ízriel Zánguil; February 14, 1864, London – August 1, 1926, Middlehurst, Sussex) was an English writer and activist of the Jewish movement.
The son of immigrants from Poland. He attended a Jewish free school in London. He wrote in English. He published the almanac Purim (1880), consisting mainly of his works.
The main works of Zangville are devoted to social and socio-national themes. The first major work, The Premier and the Painter (1888, co-authored with
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Israel Zangwill (pronounced Ízriel Zánguil; February 14, 1864, London – August 1, 1926, Middlehurst, Sussex) was an English writer and activist of the Jewish movement.
The son of immigrants from Poland. He attended a Jewish free school in London. He wrote in English. He published the almanac Purim (1880), consisting mainly of his works.
The main works of Zangville are devoted to social and socio-national themes. The first major work, The Premier and the Painter (1888, co-authored with Lewis Cowan), is based on the exchange of seats between the first minister and the workers.
The greatest success was brought to Zangville by the novel Children of the Ghetto (1892) about the life of Jews in London and the adjoining collections of short stories, as well as “Ghetto Dreamers” (1898) – semi-fictional, semi-historical biographies of prominent Jews (Uriel Acosta, Spinoza, Heine, Lassalle, Disraeli, etc.). The Children of the Ghetto is one of the most significant phenomena of Anglo-Jewish literature.
From 1898 Zangville joined the Zionist movement, and in 1905 he organized a group of territorialists, putting forward the slogan “land without people for people without land”, implying the possibility of creating a Jewish state anywhere, not only in the historical land of Israel. Over the next 20 years, Zangville participated in attempts to establish a Jewish state in Australia, Canada, Uganda, and Libya.