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Israel Zangwill was a British author at the forefront of cultural 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. January 1864 – 1. August 1926
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The Melting Pot
Israel Zangwill
The Melting Pot
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Israel Zangwill: 9 quotes1 like

Famous Israel Zangwill Quotes

“What a dark world—who knows?—
Ours to inhabit is!
One touch and what a strange
Glory might burst on us,
What a hid universe!”

Israel Zangwill

Poem: Blind Children

“How full and rich a world
Theirs to inhabit is—
Sweet scent of grass and bloom,
Playmates’ glad symphony,
Cool touch of western wind,
Sunshine’s divine caress.


How should they know or feel
They are in darkness?


But, oh, the miracle!
If a Redeemer came,
Laid finger on their eyes—
One touch and what a world,
New-born in loveliness!”

Israel Zangwill

Poem: Blind Children

“The past is our cradle, not our prison, and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.”

Israel Zangwill

The Voice of Jerusalem, Macmillan, 1921, p. 270

“An Edward's England spat us out - a band
Foredoomed to redden Vistula or Rhine,
And leaf-like toss with every wind malign.
All mocked the faith they could not understand.”

Israel Zangwill

Poem: Blind Children

“No… the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you—he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.”

Israel Zangwill The Melting Pot

The Melting Pot, act 1.

“No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.”

Israel Zangwill

Children of the Ghetto (1892), bk. 1, ch. 7.

“America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!”

Israel Zangwill The Melting Pot

The Melting Pot, act 1.

“Oh, for the simple life,
For tents and starry skies!”

Israel Zangwill

Aspiration.

“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled.”

Israel Zangwill

Children of the Ghetto (1892), bk. 2, ch. 6.

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