Israel Zangwill
(1864–1926)

writer and advocate of Jewish causes. Zangwill's work earned him the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto". The use of the metaphorical phrase "melting pot" to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularised by Zangwill's play The Melting Pot. He also wrote The Big Bow Mystery, the first locked room mystery novel

Israel Zangwill

Works edit

The "Ghetto" books

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*Works of Israel Zangwill: Italian Fantasies (1921) (start transcription)

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  • Shir Hakovod (1906)
  • Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol (1923) (external scan)

Works about Zangwill edit


 

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1926, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 97 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 

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