The Melting-Pot by Israel Zangwill
"The Melting-Pot" by Israel Zangwill is a play first staged in 1908. It follows David Quixano, a Russian Jewish immigrant who survived a pogrom that killed his family. In America, he composes an "American Symphony" celebrating his vision of a society free from ethnic divisions. When he falls in love with Vera, a Russian Christian immigrant, their romance faces a dramatic confrontation with the past. The play popularized the term "melting pot"
as a symbol for American ethnic assimilation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Melting-Pot |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melting_Pot_(play) |
| Credits |
Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Jews -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 23893 |
| Release Date | Dec 18, 2007 |
| Last Update | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1251 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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