A Jew in the public arena : the career of Israel Zangwill / Meri-Jane Rochelson

Author: Rochelson, Meri-Jane
Published: Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, [2008]
Copyright Date: ©2008
Physical Description: xxvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

Becoming a celebrity: Israel Zangwill's life and work -- Israel Zangwill's early journalism: forming an Anglo-Jewish literary identity -- Children of the ghetto -- A Jew at the fin de siècle -- Israel Zangwill's early Jewish fiction and the uses of Christianity -- Israel Zangwill and women's suffrage -- "Perhaps IZ stands for both": Zionism and territorialism -- War years -- Final words, final controversies.

Subject(s)

Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926
Authors, English—19th century—Biography
Jewish authors—Great Britain—Biography
Jewish journalists—Great Britain—Biography
Zionists—Great Britain—Biography

ISBN

9780814333440 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814333443 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-298) and index.

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