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Zangwill

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[zang-wil] / ˈzæŋ wɪl /

noun

  1. Israel, 1865–1926, English novelist and playwright.


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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

Robert Zangwill Kalfin was born on April 22, 1933, in the Bronx.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

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

Zangwill has lectured upon the drama, and paid pungent respect to its incongruities, but he has proved himself to be infinitely worse than the various playwrights whom he ridiculed.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

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