THE GREY WIG
I
They both styled themselves “Madame,”
but only the younger of the old ladies had been married.
Madame Valiere was still a demoiselle, but
as she drew towards sixty it ...
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The Jewish author and philosopher Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an influential leader of English Jewry and a Zionist activist.Israel Zangwill was born in London. His family, Russian Jews, lived in L...
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Israel Zangwill was born of Jewish immigrant parents in the Whitechapel ghetto of London's East End. Soon after young Israel's birth, his father, Moses Zangwill, from Latvia, and his mother, Ellen Han...
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To characterize Israel Zangwill as an outstanding and prolific writer of short fiction at the end of the nineteenth century is to be accurate but incomplete. Zangwill gained his greatest literary repu...
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Israel Zangwill's novels exemplify the multiplicity of his concerns and the diversity of his career as a journalist, playwright, and writer of fiction as well as an activist on behalf of pacifism, fem...
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