Metadata: Zangwill papers (Harry S. Ward Library)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 294 A1017
- Title:
- Zangwill papers (Harry S. Ward Library)
- Title (official language):
- Zangwill papers (Harry S. Ward Library)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ward, Harry S
- Date(s):
- 1895/1989
- Date note:
- 1895/1980s
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1.4 linear metres: 12 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises: Correspondence of Israel Zangwill with his lecture agent, Gerald Christy, 1895-1906. Copies of Israel Zangwill's papers, 1886 onwards, including correspondence with Dr Moses Gaster, 1886-1914, and with his literary agent, 1893-1901; copies of personal papers relating to Zangwill's early life and his schooling; copies of birth, marriage and death certificates; obituaries of Louis Zangwill; photographs, portraits and caricatures; cuttings and articles relating to Israel Zangwill's novels and to plays and theatre productions; papers relating to exhibitions; articles relating to Zangwill; papers and publications of and relating to the Jewish Territorial Organisation and the Jewish Colonial Trust.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Israel Zangwill (1864-1923) was born in Bristol. He was educated at Jews' Free School, where he later became a teacher until 1888. He edited the journal Purim in 1880. In 1888, he published The Premier and the Painter under the pseudonym of J Freeman Bell in collaboration with Lewis Cowen. Zangwill worked as editor of Ariel during this period as well as contributing to the Jewish Standard. These works drew him to the attention of the Jewish Publication Society of America, which commissioned a novel on modern Jewish life. The result was The Children of the Ghetto (Philadelphia and London, 1892). This was followed by The King of Schnorrers (London, 1894) and The Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898). Zangwill produced numerous novels, poems and verse, and works for the stage. He also contributed a series of critical causeries to the Pall Mall Gazette, which were republished under the title Without Prejudice (London, 1896). He was a successful lecturer, whose lecture tours encompassed the United States of America, Jerusalem, as well as Great Britain. Zangwill was an active supporter of Zionism. He formed the Jewish Territorial Organization, with the aim of securing from the British government a land for Jewish refugees.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Christy, Gerald
- Gaster, Moses
- Zangwill, Israel
- Zangwill, Louis
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Literature
- Personal records
- Zionism
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections