22 Facts About Israel Zangwill

Israel Zangwill was a British author at the forefront of Zionism during the 19th century, and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl.

Israel Zangwill later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and became the prime thinker behind the territorial movement.

Israel Zangwill dedicated his life to championing the cause of people he considered oppressed, becoming involved with topics such as Jewish emancipation, Jewish assimilation, territorialism, Zionism, and women's suffrage.

Israel Zangwill had already written a tale entitled The Premier and the Painter in collaboration with Louis Cowen, when he resigned his position as a teacher at the Jews' Free School owing to differences with the school managers and ventured into journalism.

Israel Zangwill initiated and edited Ariel, The London Puck, and did miscellaneous work for the London press.

Israel Zangwill's work earned him the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto".

Israel Zangwill wrote a very influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People, which the late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing called "a powerful book".

Israel Zangwill writes a great symphony named "The Crucible" expressing his hope for a world in which all ethnicity has melted away, and becomes enamored of a beautiful Russian Christian immigrant named Vera.

Israel Zangwill wrote mystery works, such as The Big Bow Mystery, and social satire, such as The King of Schnorrers, a picaresque novel.

Israel Zangwill was involved with specifically Jewish issues as an assimilationist, an early Zionist, and a territorialist.

Israel Zangwill changed his mind and founded his own organization, named the Jewish Territorialist Organization in 1905, advocating a Jewish homeland in whatever land might be available in the world which could be found for them, with speculations including Canada, Australia, Mesopotamia, Uganda and Cyrenaica.

Israel Zangwill did not invent the phrase; he acknowledged borrowing it from Lord Shaftesbury.

In 1901, in the New Liberal Review, Israel Zangwill wrote that "Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country".

In 1902, Israel Zangwill wrote that Palestine "remains at this moment an almost uninhabited, forsaken and ruined Turkish territory".

Israel Zangwill moved his support to the Uganda scheme, leading to a break with the mainstream Zionist movement by 1905.

In 1908, Israel Zangwill told a London court that he had been naive when he made his 1901 speech and had since "realized what is the density of the Arab population", namely twice that of the United States.

Israel Zangwill used this phrase to describe the collective hostility and discrimination faced by Jewish people in various countries.

Israel Zangwill was an ardent opponent of anti-Semitism and used his writings to expose and challenge the prejudices and injustices faced by Jews.

Israel Zangwill was a feminist and author, and the daughter of cousins William Edward Ayrton and Matilda Chaplin Ayrton.

The Israel Zangwill family lived for many years in East Preston, West Sussex in a house named Far End.

Israel Zangwill died of pneumonia on 1 August 1926 at a nursing home in Midhurst, West Sussex.

Israel Zangwill had spent two months at the nursing home.