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writer and advocate of Jewish causes. Zangwill's work earned him the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto". The use of the metaphorical phrase "melting pot" to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularised by Zangwill's play The Melting Pot. He also wrote The Big Bow Mystery, the first locked room mystery novel
Works
- The Big Bow Mystery (Rand, McNally & Co., 1895) (1892)
- The Old Maids' Club (1892)
- The King of Schnorrers (Collection): Grotesques and Fantasies (American Jewish Book Co, 1921) (1893) (transcription project)
- The King of Schnorrers — The Semi-Sentimental Dragon — An Honest Log-Roller — A Tragi-Comedy of Creeds — The Memory Clearing House • (1892) — Mated by a Waiter — The Principal Boy — An Odd Life — Cheating the Gallows • (1893) — Santa Claus — A Rose of the Ghetto — A Double-Barrelled Ghost — Vagaries of a Viscount — The Queen's Triplets — A Successful Operation — Flutter-Duck: A Ghetto Grotesque
- The Master: A Novel (1895) (start transcription)
- Without Prejudice (1896) (start transcription)
- The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes (1903)
- The Grey Wig (1901) — Chassé-Croisé — The Woman Beater — The Eternal Feminine — The Silent Sisters — The Big Bow Mystery (1892) — Merely Mary Ann — The Serio-comic Governess
- Merely Mary Ann (1904)
- The Melting-Pot (1909)
- Chosen Peoples (1919)
- "One and One are Two," in The Case for Women's Suffrage (pp. 200−209), (ed.) by Brougham Villiers, London: T. Fisher Unwin (1907)
- "Talked Out!," in The Case for Women's Suffrage (pp. 210−220), (ed.) by Brougham Villiers, London: T. Fisher Unwin (1907)
- The "Ghetto" books
- Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892) (start transcription)
- Grandchildren of the Ghetto (1892)
- Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898) (start transcription)
- Ghetto Tragedies (1899) (start transcription)
- Ghetto Comedies (1907)
- The Model of Sorrows • (1902) — Anglicization • (1902) — The Jewish Trinity — The Sabbath Question in Sudminster — The Red Mark • (1904/05) — The Bearer Of Burdens • (1900) — The Luftmensch • (1902, as "A Dictionary in Distress")— The Tug of Love — The Yiddish 'Hamlet' — The Converts — Holy Wedlock — Elijah's Goblet — The Hirelings — Samooborona
Short stories
*Works of Israel Zangwill: Italian Fantasies (1921) (start transcription)
Works from magazines
- "The Memory Clearing House" (Idler, 1892 July) (ss)
- "Without Prejudice" (The Pall Mall Magazine, 1893) (article series)
- "Cheating the Gallows" (novelette) in The Idler magazine, Vol 3, 1893
- "Politically Speaking" (The Chap-Book, 1895 July 15) (ar)
- "The Abolition of Money" (ss) in The Idler magazine, 1894-95
- "The Joyous Comrade" in Windsor Magazine, Vol 8, 1897-98
- "'They that Walk in Darkness'" (Pall Mall Magazine, 1898 Dec Jan) (ss)
- "The Bearer of Burdens" in Windsor Magazine, Vol 13, 1900
- "The Grey Wig" (Pall Mall Magazine, 1901 Dec) (novelette)
- "S. Cohn & Son: or, 'Anglicisation'" (Pall Mall Magazine, 1902) (ss)
- "Blind Children" (Pall Mall Magazine, 1902) (pm)
- "The Model of Sorrow" (Pall Mall Magazine, 1902) (ss)
- "'Incurable'. A Ghetto Tragedy" in McClure's Magazine, Vol 1, 1893
- "The Red Mark" in Windsor Magazine, Vol 21, 1904-05
- "A Dictionary in Distress" (Pall Mall Magazine, 1902; Windsor, 1906-07) (ss)
- "The Sabbath-Breaker" in McClure's Magazine Vol 2, 1894
- "When I Am Dead" (essay) in The Outlook 1926 Aug 11
Translation
- Shir Hakovod (1906)
Works about Zangwill
- "Zangwill, Israel," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1926, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.