The New York Times: DINNER TO ISRAEL ZANGWILL.; The Judaeans Entertain the Author and Listen to an Interesting Address.
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Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill was a British author at the forefront of Zionism during the late 19th century, and as such was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and became the prime thinker behind the Jewish territorial movement.
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culture · British author (1864–1926) · writer · playwright · comedian · novelist · journalist · activist · poet · also Israel Zangwill, Zangwill
Born 21 January 1864 · Died 1 August 1926 · Q113681
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If you wish to give a country to a people without a country, it is utter foolishness to allow it to be the country of two peoples. This can only cause trouble. The Jews will suffer and so will their neighbours. One of the two: a different place must be found either for the Jews or for their neighbours
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2024· 2 entries
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Israel Zangwill Left $15,000, His Will Discloses
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Israel Zangwill Memorial Meeting in Philadelphia
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1931· 1 entry
Jules Furthman adapted Merely Mary Ann for a movie with Janet Gaynor
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1926· 1 entry
Died 1926-08-01.
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1921· 1 entry
Zangwill suggested Lord Shaftesbury "was literally inexact in describing Palestine as a country without a people, he was essentially correct, for there is no Arab people living in intimate fusion with the country, utiliz
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1917· 1 entry
Wrote "'Give the country without a people,' magnanimously pleaded Lord Shaftesbury, 'to the people without a country
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1916· 2 entries
That, "If you wish to give a country to a people without a country, it is utter foolishness to allow it to be the country of two peoples
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“If you wish to give a country to a people without a country, it is utter foolishness to allow it to be the country of two peoples. This can only cause trouble. The Jews will suffer and so will their neighbours. One of the two: a different place must be found either for the Jews or for their neighbours”
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1913· 1 entry
Criticized those who insisted on repeating that Palestine was "empty and derelict" and who called him a traitor for reporting otherwise
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1912· 1 entry
Zangwill received a letter from Roosevelt in which Roosevelt wrote of The Melting Pot "That particular play I shall always count among the very strong and real influences upon my thought and my life
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1908· 1 entry
Zangwill told a London court that he had been naive when he made his 1901 speech and had since "realized what is the density of the Arab population", namely twice that of the United States
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1905· 2 entries
Zangwill changed his mind and founded his own organization, called the Jewish Territorialist Organization, advocating a Jewish homeland in whatever land might be available in the world which could be found for them, with
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“realized what is the density of the Arab population”
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1902· 2 entries
Zangwill wrote that Palestine "remains at this moment an almost uninhabited, forsaken and ruined Turkish territory"
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“remains at this moment an almost uninhabited, forsaken and ruined Turkish territory”
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1901· 2 entries
In the New Liberal Review, Zangwill wrote that "Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country"
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“Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country”
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1864· 1 entry
Born 1864-01-21.
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1853· 1 entry
During the preparation for the Crimean War, Shaftesbury wrote to Foreign Secretary Aberdeen that Greater Syria was "a country without a nation" in need of "a nation without a country
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