Word: israel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief Rabbi Kook stated that Israel Zangwill was absolutely mistaken in his condemnation of Great Britain. "The English are no angels, of course," said he, "but their Palestinian motives are in the main idealistic." He is on the most friendly terms with High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel. Sir Herbert, says he, has brought about close coöperation between him, the Roman Catholic Bishop, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and the Mufti* of the Moslems...
...Moderns. Israel Zangwill, hav-ing shaken his finger at the U. S., now shakes it at the entire younger generation. This author seems bent in his new play on providing his own Book of Knowledge for the children. He teaches them what to think of psychoanalysis, Longfellow, free love, free thinking, Freud, democracy, war, Christian Science, futuristic paintings, electrons and similarly unrelated matters. It is just like having the famed Britisher visit us all over again...
Died. William Armhold, 94, "oldest rabbi in the U. S."; in Atlantic City. Born in Schuchtern-Baden, Germany, in 1829; he came to the U. S. in 1853; founded a synagogue in Pittsburgh; was cantor of the Keneseth Israel Temple, Philadelphia, for 52 years; retired from active work in 1913. Said the Public Ledger (Philadelphia): "He was a leader in every Jewish movement in this city...
...Europe and in America in terms of the exaggerated respect which Americans hold for most things European and the concomitant deprecation of most things American. Old books, old hats, and old families are the better for a European origin. Certainly all visitors to the New World, from Columbus to Israel Zangwill, have commented with chary epigrams on this one commendable attribute of the natives. But respect is not synonymous with love; and it may be argued that too much respect and too little love for the European beaux arts and belles letters accounts for their lack of development...
...Israel Zangwill...