biography
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| (1864–1926)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in London, UK. He studied at London University, and became a journalist, as editor of the comic journal Ariel. He was widely known for his novels on Jewish themes, such as Children of the Ghetto (1892, dramatized by him in 1899) and Ghetto Tragedies (1893). Other works include the play The Melting Pot (1908), whose title became widely used as a defining label for the view of 20th-c USA which saw European immigrants being transformed into a new nation. He formed the Jewish Territorial Organization for the Settlement of the Jews Within the British Empire, of which he was president (1905–25), and was also an active supporter of the suffragettes. |
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