The London County Council, commemorating famous men and women, today affixed a tablet to the door of a house in Bethnal Green in the London East End where Israel Zangwill lived and worked between 1883 and 1888, The tablet bore the inscription: "Here Lived Israel Zangwill, 1864-1926, Writer and Philar thropist." The tablet was arranged at the request of the Zangwill Centenary Committee on the occasion of Zangwill’s 100th birthday.
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