Chosen Peoples - The Hebraic Ideal Versus the Teutonic

Zangwill Israel. SAMUEL, RIGHT HON. HERBERT (FOREWORD); ABRAHAMS, ISRAEL

Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, England, 1918

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78 pages. 165 x 105 mm. The First Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture. Considers the claim that Judaism resembles Germanism . Pages still uncut. Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an English-born humourist and writer. He dedicated his life to championing the cause of the oppressed. He wrote a very influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892). The use of the metaphorical phrase melting pot to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularised by Zangwill's play The Melting-Pot, a hit in the United States in 1908-1909. He also wrote mystery works, such as The Big Bow Mystery (1892) and social satire such as The King of Schnorrers (1894). He was also involved in politics as an assimilationist, an early Zionist, a territorialist, a feminist and a pacifist. His other works include: Without Prejudice (1896), The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes (1903), Merely Mary Ann (1903) and The Forcing House (1922). with a foreword by by the Right Hon Herbert Samuel MA MP and an afterward by Israel Abraham. the first "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday 1918; first edition. Seller Inventory # 003649

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Title: Chosen Peoples - The Hebraic Ideal Versus ...

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, England

Publication Date: 1918

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket, as Issued

Edition: 1st Edition