Israel Zangwill: 49 books

Take a trip through the rich folklore of Italy in this enchanting volume from author Israel Zangwill. Fairy kings, femmes fatales, bewitched animals, epic feuds—these action-packed stories traverse a broad spectrum of themes and settings.

The original whodunits were the locked room mysteries, a sub-genre of the detective mystery in which a crime is committed—almost always murder— in a location that no intruder could have entered or left, e.g., a locked room. There have been many ingenious twists on the motif since it first flourished...

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing...

Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol by Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill A key medieval Jewish Spanish poet and philosopher's devotional poetry, some of which was adopted into liturgy. "Solomon ibn Gabirol (b. 1021, d. ca. 1058) was a Jewish Neoplatonist philosopher...

Author Israel Zangwill best typifed the comic spirit of London's Jewish ghetto by immortalizing the schnorrer (beggar) — in particular, the character of Manasseh Bueno Barzillai Azevedo da Costa, a Sephardic panhandler who developed begging into a fine art. The robust and often hilarious tale tells...

I cannot pretend that my ambition to paint the Man of Sorrows had any religious inspiration, though I fear my dear old dad at the Parsonage at first took it as a sign of awakening grace. And yet, as an artist, I have always been loath to draw a line between the spiritual and the beautiful; for I have...

The Melting Pot is the third of the writer's plays to be published in book form, though the first of the three in order of composition. But unlike The War God and The Next Religion, which are dramatisations of the spiritual duels of our time, The Melting Pot sprang directly from the author's concrete...

The moment came near for the Polish centenarian grandmother to die. From the doctor's statement it appeared she had only a bad quarter of an hour to live. Her attack had been sudden, and the grandchildren she loved to scold could not be present. She had already battled through the great wave of pain,...

Londra. Alle prime luci dell’alba, in una giornata di fittissima nebbia, nel suo letto viene trovato il cadavere di Arthur Constant, un giovane uomo che viveva da solo in una misera camera presa in affitto. È morto all’istante, qualcuno gli ha tagliato brutalmente la gola. L’enigma pare irrisolvibile:...

Nato a Londra da immigrati ebrei dell’Europa dell’Est, Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) fu un personaggio di spicco nell’Inghilterra di fine Ottocento, distinguendosi non solo per l’attività letteraria, ma anche per l’incessante impegno a favore della causa sionista. Autore di opere teatrali,...

This 1895 novel represents Zangwill's rejection of the "art for art's sake" philosophy.  In this story, the protagonist, a talented young artist, sacrifices everything for art, only to be become increasingly unhappy and isolated. 

A deft political fraud, riding the currents of public opinion and exploiting patriotic feelings, leads his country into war in this 1901 satire. Zangwill, a friend of H. G. Wells, takes on questions of democracy and imperialism in a story praised by critics for capturing the political atmosphere of his times.

Published in 1901, and first performed to great success in 1908, Zangwill's play features a Jewish immigrant's assimilation into American culture.  David Quixano emigrates from Russia after his family is murdered in a pogrom.  Once in the United States he writes a symphony, "The Crucible," and falls in love with a young Russian woman whose family hides a shocking secret.

In the very first locked-room mystery, a wealthy man dedicated to helping London’s working classes is brutally murdered On a gloomy December morning in the East End, a landlady asks former police inspector George Grodman to help rouse her unresponsive tenant, Arthur Constant. Forced to break...