A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill

350 Pages·2010·71.545 MB·English

by  Meri-Jane Rochelson

A Jew in the Public Arena
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A Jew in the Public Arena
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A Jew in the Public Arena
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A Jew in the Public Arena
The Career of Israel Zangwill
Meri-Jane rochelson
wayne state university press detroit
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© 2008 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. First paperback edition 2010
(ISBN 978-0-8143-3493-5). Manufactured in the United States of America.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Rochelson, Meri-Jane.
A Jew in the public arena : the career of Israel Zangwill / Meri-Jane Rochelson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8143-3344-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Zangwill, Israel, 1864–1926. 2. Authors, English—19th century—Biography. 3. Jewish
authors—Great Britain—Biography. 4. Jewish journalists—Great Britain—Biography.
5. Zionists—Great Britain—Biography. I. Title.
PR5923.R63 2008
823’.8—dc22
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ISBN 9780814340837 (ebook)
For my mother, Pearl,
and in memory of my father, Eli
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Chronology of Israel Zangwill’s Life and Work xvii
introduction 1
1. Becoming a celebrity: israel Zangwill’s life and Work 9
2. israel Zangwill’s early Journalism: Forming an anglo-Jewish
literary identity 35
3. Children of the Ghetto 51
4. a Jew at the Fin de siècle 75
5. israel Zangwill’s early Jewish Fiction and the Uses of
christianity 103
6. israel Zangwill and Women’s suffrage 129
7. “Perhaps iZ stands for Both”: Zionism and Territorialism 151
8. War Years 171
9. Final Words, Final controversies 205
Notes 231
Selected Bibliography 291
Index 299
Permissions Acknowledgments 317
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