Zangwill
Americannoun
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The book talks about the difference between Israel Zangwill, who exalted the “melting pot” as the ideal, and Horace Kallen, who coined the term “pluralism” as an alternative.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025
“He was a brilliant intuitionist” who “gave depth and intellectual coherence to an entire field,” said Andrew Zangwill, a physics professor at Georgia Tech, who is writing a biography of Dr. Anderson.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2020
As the author Israel Zangwill put it, “There is no getting into the future, except by waiting.”
From The New Yorker • Dec. 20, 2016
We owe the term to Israel Zangwill, who wrote a mostly forgotten play of the same name in 1908.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2014
But read between the lines and you will see that Israel Zangwill, child of the Ghetto, knows that the Peculiar People are peculiar through persecution, and not necessarily so through innate nature.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert
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