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Zangwill was the creator of the expression "the melting pot",
indicating his American dream, i.e. his vision of the role of immigrants
in the USA.<br><br>
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Zangwill, Israel. <i>The Voice of Jerusalem</i>. New York: The Macmillan
Company, 1921.<br><br>
Full text available:<br><br>
google books<br>
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or:<br><br>
archive.org<br>
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http://www.archive.org/stream/voiceofjerusalem00zang/voiceofjerusalem00zang_djvu.txt<br>
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</a> "No one has laboured more for the Pacifist ideal than the
inventor of Esperanto, the late Dr. Zamenhof, the Russo-Jewish oculist
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who truly strove to heal the blindness of humanity. For the unity of
speech at which he laboured was to him merely the outward sign of the
inner unity of mankind. If he sought to undo the curse of Babel, it was
in order to bring the peace of Jerusalem. Amid the barbaric welter
generated by that military ideal of which Prussia offered the supreme
expression, in a planet seething and rumbling with animosities, and
streaked with volcanic fires, this obscure Russian Jew managed to set
myriads of every race, creed and colour, meeting in the concord <br>
of a common tongue, the very name of which brought the gospel of
hope." [p.13]<br><br>
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"It was by their linguistic talents that the adventurous journeys of
Arminius Vambery, Aurel Stein, Sven Hedin and Emin Pasha <br>
were made possible. If a Russian-American Jew, Berenson, is the chief
authority on Italian art, and Georg Brandes, the Dane, is Europe's
greatest critic, if Reuter initiated telegraphic news and Blowitz was the
prince of foreign correspondents, if Charles Frohman was the world's
greatest entrepreneur and Imre Kiralfy ran its exhibitions, all these
phenomena find their explanation in the cosmopolitanism of the Jewish
intelligentsia. For when the Jew grows out of his own Ghetto without
narrowing into his neighbour's, he must necessarily possess a superior
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sense of perspective. Lifted to the plane of idealism, this cosmopolitan
habit of mind creates Socialism through Karl Marx and Lassalle, an
international language through Dr. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, a
prophecy of the end of war through Jean de Bloch, an International
Institute of Agriculture through David Lubin, and a Race Congress through
Dr. Felix Adler." [p. 183-4]<br><br>
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