"WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT?": ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS, CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK CITY, OCTOBER 14, 1923.
New York: American Jewish Congress, 1923. Item #17111
Original Wraps. 12mo. 52 pages. First edition. Mr. Zangwill's address on the occasion of the luncheon given to the delegates by Mr. Nathan Straus. Zangwill, an English author, was born in London of a poor Russian immigrant family. He was educated at the Jews' Free School in the East End of London and later became a teacher there. Early on in his career he wrote short humorous stories. His later work, however, reflected his serious intellectual and spiritual concern with Jewish existence in the Diaspora. His most famous work was Children of the Ghetto, which reflected his experiences growing up and also his work in the East End. Zangwill was also involved in women's suffrage and pacifism during World War I. In 1895 he met Theodor Herzl in London and immediately became a follower of Zionism. He was more interested in Jewish nationhood than Jewish land and he abandoned official Zionism after the Seventh Zionist Congress in 1905 rejected the Uganda offer. After that he founded the Jewish Territorial Organization, which was dedicated to the creation of a Jewish territory, not necessarily in Palestine (Fisch, EJ) . SUBJECT(S) : Zionism. Very good condition. (AMRN-3-1).
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