
Israel Zangwill wrote fiction, plays and was a Zionist/Jewish Territorialist activist. He was also a proponent of women's rights. A program is below. For more information go HERE.
11am - Israel Zangwill and the Jewish Future-100 Years Ago
Israel Zangwill: An Illustrated Overview
Professor Meri-Jane Rochelson, FIU (Panel Moderator)
Writing Memory, Performing History: Israel Zangwill and Modern Jewish Fiction
Professor Murray Baumgarten, University of California-Santa Cruz
Angolan Zion: Israel Zangwill's Utopian Dream
Professor Adam Rovner, University of Denver
1pm - Lunch
2pm - A Staged Reading of Scenes from The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill (1908)