In 1897 Bentwich led a group of 21, including the writer Israel Zangwill, on a tour of holy sites and new settlements in Palestine on behalf of the Maccabaeans, and in 1911 he acquired land for settlement at Gezer, near Ramleh, on behalf of the Maccabean Land Company.
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While BatYisrael has not edited this article, she has edited the articles of both Diana Muir ( http : / / en . wikipedia . org / w / index . php ? title = Diana _ Muir & diff = prev & oldid = 230411906 diff ], one of the main sources for its text, and Israel Zangwill which the article discusses significantly.
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To some observers, New York, with its large The Melting Pot ", by Israel Zangwill, who in 1908 adapted Shakespeare's " Romeo and Juliet " to a setting in the Lower East Side, where droves of immigrants from diverse European nations in the early 1900s learned to live together in tenements and row houses for the first time.
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To be sure there is, the ancient and rightful lords of the soil, the Jews ! Adam M . Garfinkle, On the Origin, Meaning, Use and Abuse of a Phrase . Middle Eastern Studies,, Oct . 1991, p . 539; Israel Zangwill, the Return to Palestine, New Liberal Review, Dec . 1901, p . 615.
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Israel Zangwill saw this coming in the early 20th century : " However scrupulously and justifiably America avoids intermarriage with the negro, the comic spirit cannot fail to note spiritual miscegenation which, while clothing, commercializing, and Christianizing the ex-African, has given'rag-time'and the sex-dances that go with it, first to white America and then to the whole white world ."
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Sharp highlights the importance of Nevinson and the Men's League for Women's Suffrage : " It is impossible to rate too highly the sacrifices that they ( Henry Nevinson and Laurence Housman ) and H . N . Brailsford, F . W . Pethick Lawrence, Harold Laski, Israel Zangwill, Gerald Gould, George Lansbury, and many others made to keep our movement free from the suggestion of a sex war ."
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During this time, he wrote two well-reviewed books on the state of the two worlds of Europe and America, and the situation of the Jews on both continents . " Europe : A Book for America " ( Boni and Liveright, 1919 ) is a long prophetic poem predicting the decay of Europe and the promise of America . " Now and Forever " ( McBride, 1925 ) is an imaginary conversation between Roth and the great British writer Israel Zangwill on the merits of Diaspora and Zionism for the Jewish people.
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What thought Zionists did give to Arab national rights was perhaps typified by this passage by Israel Zangwill, written just after the first World War :'The Arabs should recognize that the road of renewed national glory lies through Baghdad, Damascus and Mecca, and all the vast territories freed for them from the Turks and be content . [ . . . ] The powers that freed them have surely the right to ask them not to grudge the petty strip ( Israel ) necessary for the renaissance of a still more down-trodden people .'Thus from the beginning Zionists saw the Arab residents of Palestine as part of a larger Arab nation.
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Afsai discussed Avi Shlaim, Anthony Pagden, Ghada Karmi, Mustapha Marrouchi, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Scott Hunt, Peter Rodgers, Karl Sabbagh and others as examples of those who treat the stories as verified historical events, and concluded : " The'married to another man'story, in all of its various permutations, should not be considered authentic until a primary or at least early source is found that shows it to be so . " He also noted that some of the same points made " by telling the'married to another man'story can be made by referring to actual historical documents and occurrences " instead, and mentioned the writings and observations of Zionist travelers such as Leo Motzkin, Israel Zangwill and Ahad Ha'am, and the Zionist settler Yitzhak Epstein.
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Contemporary reviews were also generally positive, with the " New York Times " concluding, This story, in all its guilelessness, appealing as it does to human love, will certainly please readers, irrespective of race or creed . Offering similar praise for her writing and the perceived authenticity of her work, the " Boston Herald " stated, The whole narrative is very agreeably and naturally written, and nothing is introduced but what the child saw with her own eyes, endured in her own flesh and blood, thought in her own little head . Other publications drew favorable comparisons with Israel Zangwill, the author of the book's preface and an accomplished Jewish writer himself, with the " Kalamazoo Gazette " proclaiming, little Mary promises to become the most forceful Jewish writer of English in the world, not excepting Zangwill himself .
