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A Jew in the Public Arena
Examines the fascinating and controversial career of Israel Zangwillauthor, journalist, feminist, Zionist, and the first Jewish celebrity of the twentieth century.
From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot
In his historic play The Melting Pot, Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) introduced into our discourse a potent metaphor that for nearly a hundred years has served as a key definition of the United States. The play, enthusiastically espoused by President Theodore Roosevelt, to whom it was dedicated, offered a grand vision of America as a dynamic process of ethnic and racial amalgamation. By his own admission, The Melting Pot grew out of Zangwill's intense involvement in issues of Jewish immigration and resettlement and was grounded in his interpretation of Jewish history. Zangwill, Anglo Jewry's most renowned writer, began writing seriously for the stage in the late 1890s. At the time, the negative...
Israel Zangwill
A critical study of the works of Israel Zangwill that attempts to understand his 'wonderful country' and its 'peculiar people' as they appear in his books and to show his thought in relation to the historical and intellectual events of his time.
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Dreamer of the Ghetto
Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set within a historical context, i.e., Jewish emancipation and the dilemma of how one might remain fully Jewish while becoming fully modern.
The Melting-Pot
The Melting-Pot is a play by Israel Zangwill. It depicts the hardships and joys of a Jewish family struggling in NYC against the winds of the current society at the time.
