"Israel Zangwill" Quotes from Famous Books
... and you will see that Israel Zangwill, child of the Ghetto, knows that the Peculiar People are peculiar through persecution, and not necessarily so through innate nature. Zangwill knows that no religion is pure except in its stage of persecution, and that Judaism, grown rich and ... — Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard
... his first visit to England, met and talked with Israel Zangwill, the novelist, whom he impressed without quite winning him over. But Zangwill made it possible for him to meet more than a few prominent, influential Jews of whom he made immediate converts. None of them wanted to know anything about the Argentine, and on this point ... — The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl |