Zangwill

Zangwill, ISRAEL, born of Jewish family in London in 1864, was mainly self-taught, but graduated with honours at London University, and, after some experience in teaching, became an active journalist. He has written poems, plays, novels, and essays, and became widely known by his tales of Jewish life—Children of the Ghetto (1892) and Ghetto Tragedies (1894), and The King of Schmorers (1894). Other works are The Master (1895), Without Prejudice (republished essays, 1896), and A Nineteenth Century Miracle (1897).