(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A glowing tribute to the memory of Israel Zangwill was paid by Leopold J. Greenberg, editor of the London “Jewish Chronicle”, a life-long friend of the late Anglo-Jewish author.
“I believe that the world lost in the death of Israel Zangwill a personality whose memory it will long cherish. Jewry lost one of its most illustrious sons who will be reckoned among Maimonides, Moses Mendelsohn, Heinrich Heine, Baruch Spinoza, the Ibn Ezras, Disraeli, Pinsker, Emanuel Noah and Theodore Herzl.
“This is not an extravagant view. Zangwill, born in the very dregs of squalid poverty, has made by his true genius a great place for himself in world literature. He was an orator, a great fighter in all movements for the amelioration of Jewry in the entire world. With consummate courage he spoke of peace when the entire world was for war.
“Israel Zangwill will be accorded a high place among the world’s greatest humanists.” the article states.
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