ISRAEL

See also:

• ISRAEL ZANGWILL (1864— )

ZANGWILL (1864— )  , Jewish man of letters, was born in London on the 14th of February 1864 . His early childhood was spent in Plymouth and at Bristol, where he received his first schooling . He was in his ninth year when his parents settled in Spitalfields, and he entered the Jews' Free School, where eventually he became a teacher . Concurrently with his teaching work he took his degree with honours at London University . He had already written a fantastic tale entitled The Premier and the Painter in collaboration with Louis Cowen, when he resigned his position as a teacher owing to differences with the school managers and ventured into journalism . He founded and edited Ariel, The London Puck, and did much miscellaneous work on the London press . FIe made his literary reputation with a novel, The Children of the Ghetto (1892), which was followed by Ghetto Tragedies (1893); The Master (1895); Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898); The Mantle of Elijah (19o1); and other tales and novels of great interest dealing with Jewish life . Children of the Ghetto was produced in a play in New York with success in 1899, and has since been extensively played both in English and Yiddish . Others of his plays are: Merely Mary Ann, played at the Duke of York's theatre, and The Serio-Comic Governess; Nurse Marjorie; and The Melting Pot, all produced in New York . Mr Zangwill was the founder of the International Jewish Territorial Organization (see ZIoNIsm) .