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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ISRAEL ZANGWILL. Complete in 14 volumes. Copyright 1925. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. "The father of all contemporary Anglo-Jewish novelists" (Gerda Charles, Jewish Chronicle Literary Supplement June 4, 1976.) Intricately gilded spines with Star of David motif. Bound in the original morocco leather bindings. In remarkable condition despite the age. The bindings are original. The leather is supple. The hinges are all sound. The paper is extremely high quality. Light shelf rubs. An exceptional set. The Works of Israel Zangwill. SIGNED Limited Numbered Edition. In Fourteen Volumes. London, The Globe Publishing Co. Ltd., 1925 1st Ltd Ed. 262/1000 Fourteen Volumes. Tall approx 9 x 5.5 inches. Red morocco leather and red cloth to boards. With gilt Star of David decorations to spines. Top page edges gilt. Maroon endpapers. In very good conditions. Slight fading to spines, with some minor rubbing to spine ends, Some minor handling marks to boards, some minor surface marks to cloths. Signed by the Author and numbered in volume 1. Frontis engraving tissue guarded. Inside pages all very clean and tight. Very little handling marks. No foxing or spots. Loose newspaper article and catalogue. A very good clean and smart signed set. 14 vols: Illustrated with 14 colour frontis plates, Plus a B&W engraved line-drawn portrait of Zangwill in vol.1, specially made for this edition by Alfred A. Wolmark. Dreamers of The Ghetto &c. "The father of all contemporary Anglo-Jewish novelists" (Gerda Charles, Jewish Chronicle Literary Supplement June 4, 1976.) Israel Zangwill (21 January 1864 - 1 August 1926) was a British author at the forefront of Zionism during the 19th century, and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and became the prime thinker behind the territorial movement. Zangwill endorsed feminism and pacifism,[18] but his greatest effect may have been as a writer who popularised the idea of the combination of ethnicities into a single, American nation. The hero of his widely produced play The Melting Pot proclaims: "America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming.Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians â " into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American." Jewish politics Zangwill was also involved with specifically Jewish issues as an assimilationist, an early Zionist, and a territorialist.[18] Jewish territorialism was a political movement that emerged as a response to the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe during the early 20th century. It proposed the establishment of a Jewish homeland outside of Palestine, offering alternative solutions to the ongoing debate about Jewish self-determination and Zionism.[21] After having for a time endorsed Theodor Herzl, including presiding over a meeting at the Maccabean Club, London, addressed by Herzl on 24 November 1895, and endorsing the main Palestine-oriented Zionist movement. Zangwill changed his mind and founded his own organization, named the Jewish Territorialist Organization in 1905, advocating a Jewish homeland in whatever land might be available[22] in the world which could be found for them, with speculations including Canada, Australia, Mesopotamia, Uganda and Cyrenaica.[23] This is a gorgeous set. It would make an excellent gift or addition to any fine library. This set will be well protected for shipping. Please see my other listings for similar books. Leather, publisherâ s original bindings. First Collected Edition. Autograph Edition.
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