Israel Zangwill

Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) is a Jewish British author. He lived mainly with the the United States of America.

Member of the world Organization Zionist, it leaves it in 1905 and founds the Jewish Organization territorialist, who intends to create a Jewish state apart from the Palestine.

He is born in London in a family from emigrated Russian Jews. After solids studies, it becomes a time teacher then turns to journalism and founds a humorous newspaper, Ariel , which it directs during several years. In parallel, it publishes its first books of which the Great Mystery of Bow , one of the first police accounts of murder in closed room, and the king of Schnorrers , but it is with the publication of the children of the Ghetto , where, as in other works, it puts in scene the Jewish community, that it is a real success which will not be contradicted in the future. It is this work and the following ones which are worth the nickname of " to him; Charles Dickens juif" and place it at the row of largest among its contemporaries. After having adapted successfully the Children of the ghetto for the theater, it continues to write for the scene and present in New York its principal parts, of which The Melting Pot (the crucible), expression passed to the posterity in about all the languages of the world.

Deeply concerned with the situation of its people, Zangwill is, more than one Zionist of the first hour, a militant of the right to a national hearth for the Jews. But this engagement is not its only combat. He is very early the champion of the suffragettes, criticizes the policy of limitaion of the immigration of the United States, and often finds himself, by principle, on the side of the causes difficult to carry.

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