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Updated: June 27, 2025
Israel Zangwill, shrewdest, keenest and kindliest of Jews with the tragedy of his race pictured on his furrowed face, a face like an ancient weather-worn statue on whose countenance grief has petrified has summed up the character of Disraeli as no other man ever has or can.
At the present time in England only a very few writers or investigators hold high positions by anything approaching the unanimous verdict of the intelligent public of that section of the public that counts. In the department of fiction, for example, there is a very audible little minority against Mr. Kipling, and about Mr. George Moore or Mr. Zangwill or Mr.
He is simply a public apology, and like most public apologies, he is very stiff and not very convincing. So far so good. Now we come to the funny part. To describe the high visionary and mystic Jew like Spinoza or Zangwill is a great and delicate task in which even Dickens might have failed. But most of us know something of the make and manners of the low Jew, who is generally the successful one.
In his volume, The Children of the Ghetto , Zangwill admirably chronicles the lives of these people and the sharp contrasts between their quaint traditions and a great modern commercial city's customs. The Celtic Renaissance. Some of the best recent English verse has been written by poets of Irish birth or sympathies.
Zangwill aptly terms the 'Dreamers of the Ghetto' would have found the ready acceptance that several of them did when they presented themselves as Messiah or his forerunners. And no doubt there are many Jews who still cling to this form of the belief. On the other hand, there has been a slow but widespread tendency to reinterpret the whole intention of the Messianic hope of Judaism.
Israel Zangwill, the Jewish writer, was born in London in 1864. He first won fame by interpreting the Jewish temperament as he saw it manifested in London's dingy, pitiful Ghetto quarter.
Van der Spijck did not produce great art, yet his pictures are now in demand because he was the kind and loyal friend of Spinoza, and his heart, not his art, fixes his place in history. In his sketch, Zangwill has certain of his old friends, members of the Van den Ende family, hunt out the philosopher in his obscure lodgings and pay him a social visit.
Zangwill made this remark, of getting together a small collection of pictures of millionaires two pictures of each, one before and the other after taking and having them mounted in the most approved patent-medicine style, and taking them down to Far End and asking Mr.
Gerhart Hauptmann and Robert Hichens; Voltaire and Henry Van Dyke; Flaubert and John Fox, Jr.; Balzac and John Kendrick Bangs; Ostrovsky and E. Phillips Oppenheim; Elinor Glyn and Théophile Gautier; Joseph Conrad and Robert W. Chambers; Zola and Zangwill!...
Zangwill's keen intellect, straining hard for striking pictures and word effects, sees falsely the great general of the future. He says: "The Napoleon of the future will be an epileptic chess player, carried about the field of battle on an air cushion." In this condensed, picturesque fashion Mr. Zangwill expresses sententiously a number of mistaken ideas.
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