Metadata: Zangwill, Israel
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Postal address:
- Senate House Library,University of London,Malet StreetLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1E 7HU
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8500
- Web address:
- https://london.ac.uk/senate-house-library
- Reference number:
- SL V 83
- Title:
- Zangwill, Israel
- Title (official language):
- Zangwill, Israel
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926, author and philanthropist
- Date(s):
- 1890/1910
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 bundle
- Scope and content:
- A holograph manuscript, c1900, of _The Gods of Germany_ written by Israel Zangwill.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Israel Zangwill was born in London on 1 February 1864. He was educated at schools in Bristol and Plymouth. In 1873 his parents returned to London, where they sent Zangwill to the Jews' Free School at Spitalfields, London. He received a BA with triple honours from the University of London. He published his first literary work, a short story in the journal _Society_. His first novel, _The Premier and the Painter_, appeared in 1888. From 1888 to 1926 Zangwill wrote many novels and plays including, _The Big Bow Mystery_, 1891, _Children of the Ghetto: A study of a Peculiar People_, 1892-1893 and the play _We Moderns_, 1926. During his lifetime, Zangwill also worked as a teacher, a lawyer and editor of the journal _Ariel_. Zangwill was involved in the Zionist movement. In 1904 he founded the Jewish Territorial Organisation. He also became the president of several Jewish cultural organisations including the Jewish Historical Society of England and the Jewish Drama League. He wrote pamphlets and addressed meetings in America, Europe and Israel on Jewish life and politics. Zangwill died on 1 August 1926 at his home in Midhurst, Sussex.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Zangwill, Israel
- Subject terms:
- Literature
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb96-slv83
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Senate House Library, University of London