MR ZANGWILL'S NEW PLAY.
"My new play, 'The Melting-pot,' is part of my work for the Jewish problem," says Mr Zangwill in the "Jewish Chronicle." "It deals with the general problem of America— the fusion of races, as the title 'The Melting-pot' implies—and with the problem of the Jew as part of this general problem. Naturally, it deals very sympathetically with the Jewish side, which is, I think, specially important at a period when social anti-Semitism is raging more furiously in America than ever before. Of course, this anti-Semitism may even produce the failure of the play, but that I must risk. It does not pay to do Jewish work nowadays. The Jews do not want it, and the Christians will net have it. Jews like to lie low and say nothing, and the Christians do not want to interest themselves in the Jews. No one who takss up the Jewish problem for art's sake is likely to make much money out of it,"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3058, 1 December 1908, Page 3
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164MR ZANGWILL'S NEW PLAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3058, 1 December 1908, Page 3
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