The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies: 'Let us start a new religion with one commandment, Enjoy thyself''
()
About this ebook
Israel Zangwill was born in London on 21st January 1864, to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire.
Zangwill was initially educated in Plymouth and Bristol. At age 9 he was enrolled in the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields in east London. Zangwill excelled here. He began to teach part-time at the school and eventually full time. Whilst teaching he also studied with the University of London and by 1884 had earned his BA with triple honours in philosophy, history, and the sciences.
His writing earned him the sobriquet "the Dickens of the Ghetto" primarily based on his much lauded novel ‘Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People’ in 1892 and its glimpse of the poverty-stricken life in London's Jewish quarter.
As a writer he was keen to reflect on his political and social outlooks. His simulation of Yiddish sentence structure in English aroused great interest. His mystery work, ‘The Big Bow Mystery’ (1892) was the first locked room mystery novel.
Zangwill was also involved with narrowly focused Jewish issues as an assimilationist, an early Zionist, and later a territorialist. In the early 1890s he had joined the Lovers of Zion movement in England. In 1897 he joined Theodor Herzl (considered the father of modern political Zionism) in founding the World Zionist Organization.
Zangwill quit the established philosophy of Zionism when his plan for a homeland in Uganda was rejected and founded his own organisation; the Jewish Territorialist Organization. Its stated goal was to create a Jewish homeland in whatever territory in the world could be found for them.
Amongst the challenges in his life he found time to write poetry. He had translated a medieval Jewish poet in 1903 and his volume ‘Blind Children’ in 1908 shows his promise in this new endeavour.
‘The Melting Pot’ in 1909 made Zangwill’s name as an admired playwright. When the play opened in Washington D.C., former President Theodore Roosevelt leaned over the edge of his box and shouted, "That's a great play, Mr. Zangwill, that's a great play."
Israel Zangwill died on 1st August 1926 in Midhurst, West Sussex.
Read more from Israel Zangwill
Chosen Peoples: 'Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJinny the Carrier: 'Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWithout Prejudice: 'Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsItalian Fantasies: 'The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMerely Mary Ann: 'It takes two men to make one brother'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Grey Wig: 'Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDreamers of the Ghetto: 'No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Grandchildren of the Ghetto: 'Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlind Children: 'I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChildren of the Ghetto: 'Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Old Maids Club: 'What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Melting Pot: 'America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhetto Tragedies: 'Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhetto Comedies: 'Selfishness is the only real atheism'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies
Related ebooks
The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Children of the Ghetto: 'Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe King of Schnorrers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChildren Of The Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDreamers of the Ghetto Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Swampers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Paladin of Philanthropy and Other Papers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDreamers of the Ghetto: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Freelands: “It’s impossible for a husband to interfere with his wife’s principles” Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dreamers of the Ghetto: 'No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSouth Wind (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The King In Yellow: “There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry James Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHans of Iceland by Victor Hugo - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe King of Schnorrers - Grotesques and Fantasies: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Tale of Two Cities Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5George Borrow, the Man and His Work Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChildren of the Ghetto (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Study of a Peculiar People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Men of Business Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe King in Yellow (New Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Woman in White Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The King in Yellow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A History of the Four Georges and William IV, Volume 2 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Devonshire House Circle (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Works of Washington Irving Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Innocence of Father Brown Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe King in Yellow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJohn Rutherford, the White Chief A Story of Adventure in New Zealand Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales of Two Countries Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Jewish Fiction For You
The Chosen Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Postcard Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Last Jew in Prague Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Auschwitz Lullaby: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Marriage of Opposites Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5City of Laughter Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Book Thief: A Novel by Markus Zusak | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Sisters: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wolf and the Woodsman: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Orphan #8: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Weight Of Ink Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shmutz: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Once We Were Brothers: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Painted Bird Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ben-Hur: The Novel That Inspired the Epic Movie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Another Time: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sacrifice of Tamar: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Light After the War: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Man Who Saw Everything Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ecstasy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ghost Keeper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Memoir From Antproof Case: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Day After Night: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boston Girl: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Midwife of Venice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Florence Adler Swims Forever: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies
0 ratings0 reviews