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    Chosen Peoples: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton
    Chosen Peoples: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton
    Chosen Peoples: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton
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    Chosen Peoples: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton

    By Israel Zangwill and J. A. Hammerton

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    First published in 1910, “Chosen Peoples” is a treatise by British author Israel Zangwill that explores the idea of the Jews as “chosen people”, exploring its origins, meaning, problems, criticisms, historical importance, and much more in a fascinating and in-depth study of the subject. Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) was a leading figure in cultural Zionism during the 19th century, as well as close friend of father of modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl. In later life, he renounced the seeking of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. A notable portion of Zangwill's work concentrated on ghetto life and earned him the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto". This vintage book will appeal to those with an interest in Judaism and Zionism, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an introductory chapter from “English Humourists of To-Day” by J. A. Hammerton.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead & Co. Books
    Release dateMay 26, 2020
    ISBN9781528789936
    Chosen Peoples: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton
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    Israel Zangwill

    Zangwill, the son of Latvian and Polish immigrants, was born in London’s East End and showed literary promise as early as eighteen. A teacher for some years after he graduated from London University, he eventually left the profession to write full-time, publishing hundreds of essays, as well as novels, short stories and plays produced in London and New York. His work concentrated on political, social and Jewish issues but The Big Bow Mystery was his only venture into detective fiction.

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      Chosen Peoples - Israel Zangwill

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      CHOSEN PEOPLES

      THE HEBRAIC IDEAL

      VERSUS THE TEUTONIC

      WITH A CHAPTER FROM

      English Humorists of To-day

      BY J. A. Hammerton

      By

      ISRAEL ZANGWILL

      First published in 1918

      This edition published by Read Books Ltd.

      Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library

      To

      Mrs. Redcliffe N. Salaman

      This little book in her Father's memory

      Contents

      Israel Zangwill

      NOTE

      FOREWORD

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      VIII

      AFTERWORD

      Israel Zangwill

      Israel Zangwill

      This picture though it is not much

      Like Zangwill, is not void of worth

      It has one true Zangwillian touch

      It looks like nothing else on earth.

      Oliver Herford

      Confessions of a Caricaturist,

      Perhaps some one will suggest that Mr. Israel Zangwill is a humorist only as one whom we loved long since and lost awhile, because of late years — indeed, for more than a decade — little that is entirely humorous has come from his pen. On the other hand, he has never been a humorist who inspires affection: he is somewhat too intellectual for that. There is no novelist who, with greater justice, takes himself and his art more seriously than Mr. Zangwill has done since, in 1892, he wrote that masterpiece of modern fiction, Children of the Ghetto; yet, as he began his literary career as a humorous writer and is beyond question one of our masters of epigrammatic wit and intellectual point—de—vice, he may with sufficient reason be included in any survey of modern humour. Moreover, despite the high and serious purpose of all his later work, his attendant imps of mirth are ever at his elbow, and we find him with welcome frequency acknowledging their presence in the writing of even his soberest stories.

      Born to Jewish parents in London forty—three years ago, Mr Zangwill shares the distonction of such celebrities as Napoleon and Wellington in not knowing his birthday. He is aware that the year was 1864, but the day would seem to have been wropt in mystery. He has, however, got over the difficulty by choosing his own birthday, and for this purpose he selected February 14. It is not merely. he says, that St. Valentine's Day is the very day for a novelist, but he has a dog whose pedigree has been more carefully kept than his own, and it bears the name Valentine from having been born on the saint's day, master and dog can celebrate their birthday together. This canine favourite he has thus addressed in verse:

      Accept from me these birthday lines—

      If every dog must have his dog,

      How bless'd to have St.Valentine's!

      But, asked on one occasion to give the date of his birthday, Mr.Zangwill replied, expressing his inability to do so, and suggested that the inquirer might select some nice convenient day, a roomy one, on which he would not be jostled by bigger men.

      As he is eminently original in his personality as well as in his work, it is not surprising to know that during his boyhood his favourite reading was not found among the conventional classics, but that he loved to rove in the strange realms of fiction created by writers whose names will be found nowhere in the annals of bookland; the fabricators of cheap boy's stories to wit. Yet his scholastic training was eminently respectable, as he was the most successful scholar

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