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
christian clever men
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
change things-change
Everything changes but change
real religion atheism
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
christian religion atheism
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
book soul censorship
[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul...
children father simple
O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.
ignorance doctors giving
What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!
real atheism selfishness
Selfishness is the only real atheism.
thinking islands race
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...
sweet children eye
How full and rich a world Theirs to inhabit is-- Sweet scent of grass and bloom, Playmates' glad symphony, Cool touch of western wind, Sunshine's divine caress. How should they know or feel They are in darkness? But, oh, the miracle! If a Redeemer came, Laid finger on their eyes-- One touch and what a world, New-born in loveliness!
art philosophy humorous
...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.
wise may want
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
hate poetry glitter
I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!
men hair long
There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.