A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill PDF
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A Jew in the Public Arena 00 Rochelson FM.indd 2 8/20/08 4:35:09 PM A Jew in the Public Arena 00 Rochelson FM.indd 1 8/20/08 4:35:09 PM A Jew in the Public Arena 00 Rochelson FM.indd 2 8/20/08 4:35:09 PM A Jew in the Public Arena The Career of Israel Zangwill Meri-Jane rochelson wayne state university press detroit 00 Rochelson FM.indd 3 8/20/08 4:35:09 PM © 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. 14 13 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 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 [B] ISBN 9780814340837 (ebook) For my mother, Pearl, and in memory of my father, Eli 00 Rochelson FM.indd 5 8/20/08 4:35:10 PM 00 Rochelson FM.indd 6 8/20/08 4:35:10 PM 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 vii 00 Rochelson FM.indd 7 8/20/08 4:35:10 PM 00 Rochelson FM.indd 8 8/20/08 4:35:10 PM
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