Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28

+. Ghetto" he has never looked back Each
| of his books has steadily increased his fame
and proved the versatility of his genius.
He has written successful plays and novels
of purely English life. essays and philo-
| sophical works. biography and sparkling
stories for the humorous papers; but all his
| pest work has dealt with the Ghetto. Those
! who like his writings most wish that he
would write of nothing else.
HE Is the immigrant alien in the field of
British letters-the most striking manifesto
ton of Jewish genius In British garb since
Disraeli, said Lucien Wolf. For my
part. | should prefer that he always re-
NAMED the dreamer of the Ghetto That
| is his most natural role He knows his
people as few know them, and he can
paint them as no one else can. The Ghetto
appeals to his deepest emotions and sound
est knowledge"
Not an Orthodox Jew.
Zangwill has travelled widely In order to
advocate the Zionist movement: he has
even leetured before large audiences in
Jerusalem In America he is always sure
of crowds to hear him wherever there is
considerable Jewish element In the popu-
lation. And yet he is by no means an or
thodox Jew, the term is commonly I'M
derStood. In the words of one of his
friends, He has revolted against Judaism,
on the ground of Jewish idealism because
of the Phflistinism of one-half of Jewry
and the pathetic stagnation of the other
half
Nobody has dashed what is ignoble in the
Jewish world more bitterly than Zangwiil;
nobody has lauded what is noble more en-
Enthusiastically. He did not hesitate once TO
compare himself, by inference, to the an
| cient prophets who denounced the sins OF
Israel. His views on the present position
| of his people are summed up in a remark
able poem, Israel which is comparative
| iy unknown:
Hear. Israel. Jehovah the Lord our God is One,
But we, Jehovah. His people. are dual and -
undone.
sisyes in eternal Egypt, baking their strawless
At in successive Zions. prating their politics.
Isotting in suniit Roumania, piggiug in Russian
Driving in Park. Bois and Prater. clingng
Fashions tail
i Keeling before every rowdy. with hundred
Clothed in fine linen and purple, loved at the
courts of kings.
Priests of the household altar blessing the bread
and wine
Lords of the bells of Gomarrah. licensed keepers
Of swine
Welded meath Hebrew awning. buried meath He
Between not a dream of duty, never glimpse Of
God.
Risklng lives for countries. loving
Iicurded therefrom In repayment, hugging our
bloody rags.
Tartalus- Proteus Of Peoples, security comes from
withini
Where is the Lion of Judah? Wearing an ASS
skin.
Hear Israel. Jehovah the Lord our God is one,
Bur We. Jehovah, His people, dual and
undone.'
Zangwill is only forty years old. and
seems destined to have an even greater
career before him. If the new Zion is es-
tablished he will be its laureate and phil
ncn lllfp- mol. han tS fat
He has for many years enjoyed the friend
ship of several leading English statesmen,
who frequently avail themselves of his
perence and counsel in questions of social
legislation.
He has a younger brother. Louis Gang
will, who has also won distinction as an
author, usually writing under the pseu-
denym ~ H."