Israel Zangwill
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Israel Zangwill was a British author at the forefront of Zionism during the late 19th century, and as such was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in
Zangwill in 1905
Time cover, 17 September 1923
Theatre Programme for the play The Melting Pot (1916).
Signed drawing by Manuel Rosenberg 1924
Edith Ayrton
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Edith Chaplin Ayrton Zangwill was a British author and activist. She helped form the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.
Israel Zangwill
…reforming...Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians – into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American." Zangwill married Edith Ayrton in 1903. She was a feminist and author, and the daughter of cousins William Edward Ayrton and Matilda Chaplin Ayrton. Ayrton's stepmother was Hertha…
Jewish League for Woman Suffrage badge, from the collection of The Women's Library, London School of Economics and Political Science
Blue plaque on Far End, East Preston, West Sussex