Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwillwas a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, he was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland and became the prime thinker behind the territorial movement...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 February 1864
coming fusion perhaps
No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you / he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
forgiveness inspiration past
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
long common tolerate
As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.
spiritual art struggle
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.
hate poetry glitter
I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!
dogma ideals eternal
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
distance heart law
The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.
enjoy commandments thyself
Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.