Dreamer of the Ghetto
Dreamer of the Ghetto
The Life and Works of Israel Zangwill
"An impressive achievement. . . . Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set within a historical context, i.e., Jewish emancipation and the dilemma of how one might remain fully Jewish while becoming fully modern, that helps to illuminate Zangwill's life as well as his writings."
—Jewish Book News
"By carefully following the threads of Zangwill's own divided self through the labyrinths of his life and writings, Udelson convinces us not only of the author's startling political prescience, but that he embodies attitudes now shared by almost all secular Jews as a result of events Zangwill did not witness—Nazism and the founding of Israel."
—Shofar
An impressive achievement. . . . Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set within a historical context, i.e., Jewish emancipation and the dilemma of how one might remain fully Jewish while becoming fully modern, that helps to illuminate Zangwill's life as well as his writings.' --Jewish Book News
By carefully following the threads of Zangwill's own divided self through the labyrinths of his life and writings, Udelson convinces us not only of the author's startling political prescience, but that he embodies attitudes now shared by almost all secular Jews as a result of events Zangwill did not witness--Nazism and the founding of Israel.' --Shofar
Joseph H. Udelson is also the author of The Great Television Race: A History of the Television Industry, 1925–1941.
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942
A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
By Paul A. Shapiro; Translated by Angela Jianu
