Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-08-05
MOST WIDELY KNOWN JEW OF PRESENT
GENERATION SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA
FOLLOWING TWO MONTHS OF ILLNESS
Was Ardent Zionist; Early
Supporter of Woman
Suffrage

Death removed the leading
literary figure of the Jewish
world when Israel Zangwill, poet,
playwright, and novelist, passed
away last Sunday afternoon in a
hospital at Sussex, England, at
the age of sixty-two. Mr.. Zang-
will had been under treatment
for about two months, but his
condition gave no alarm until
week ago when he took sudden
turn for the worse. Pneumonia
setting in was the cause of his
death.
Well Known In u. s.
Mr.. Zangwill made numerous trips
to this country in connection with the
Zionists activities and his interests In
the International Jewish Territorial
Organization, commonly known as the
|. II. o. The American Zionist Or
ganization invited Mr.. Zangwill to speak
IN this country last year to aid in the
campaign of the Keren Hayesod. His
disturbing remarks caused furore at
that time regarding the need for n
, militant jury in this country as well as
elsewhere. Leading American Jews
were compelled to denounce his sllg-
gestion that the Jews of this country
should organize their own political par
ty as means of attaining a protection
of their liberties and their other legiti-
mate aids. Chief among his critics at
the time We're Louis Marshal Samuel
Untermyer, and his close friend Nathan
Strauss
His Canlidness Annoyed
1t was not strange that man of Mr..
Zangwilrs inherent candidness should
often rub his friends the wrong way
by the frankness of his expressions.
Israel Zangwill was born in London
England on February IA. 1864. When
Israel was nine years old, his family
moved to Sussex where the lad received
his early education at the Jews Free
School Zangwill later taught at tho
|
gree. He was graduated from the Uni.
versity of London with high hOnors.
Children of the Ghetto"
Zangwill's career as a world literary
figure began with the remarkable sue
cess achieved by his first collection of
short stories, Children of the Ghetto"
which appeared in 1892 His outstand-
ing success in this field encouraged him
to attempt other sympathetic sketches
of the life of the Jewish poor of Lon
| don. His Dreamers of the Ghetto
Interest in Jewish Homeland
Mr. Zangwill. early in his manhood.
evinced an interest in establishing
Jewish homeland. He gained the con.
idence of Baron de Hirsch and aided
the wealthy philanthropist toward the
rehabilitation of Palestine.
| In 1901, Zangwill founded the Inter
national Jewish Territorial Organi-
zation. He lectured in Great Britain,
| Holland, Ireland, Palestine and the
United States. making known the OBJ.
jects of the Organization and obtain
ing funds for its activities. One of Mr..
Zangwill's best known schemes in this
field was the plan to settle the Angola
land In Africa by Jewish colonization.
1t was his interest in the South Afri-
can plan which estranged him from the
Zionist Organization, altho, Mr.. Zang-
will retained his interest in Zlonism
to the end.
Versatile; Wide Interests
Zangwill's interests were varied. In
literature he achieved success in tho
drama and in poetry as well as
fiction. In this country, Mr. Zangwill's
most successful drama was "The Melt
ing Pot" in which he expressed his
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