The centenary of the birth of Israel Zangwill was commemorated last night at a public gathering, the first of a series of commemorative events scheduled throughout this year.
Among those who addressed the large and representative gathering were Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie; Joseph Leftwich Zangwill’s biographer; Robert Atkins, producer and author; author Vera Brittain; Dr. Cecil Roth, the historian; Jacob Halevy, chairman of the Zionist Federation, and Prof. Oliver Zangwill of Cambridge, the youngest of the great Anglo-Jewish writer’s children. John M. Shaftesley, chairman of the Zangwill Centenary Committee, presided.
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