Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — Zangtwill’s Fight For Fame. [ARTICLE]

Zangtwill’s Fight For Fame.

Mr. Zangwill had a hard struggle with adversity before he achieved fame. Born in the ghetto, of very poor parents—they were alien immigrants—he received his education at the Jews’ Free school in Spitalfields, where he rose to be a teacher at the same time that he graduated and took high honors in philosophy at the University of London. The amount of hard work that he got through at the free school was extraordinary. His days were spent in the exhaustive labor of teaching large, unruly classes. His nights were divided between studying for his degree and writing for the press. Until he was 21 he never knew what It was to spend an idle hour. He was a poor youth, unknown and absolutely friendless, when, in collaboration with another free school teacher, he produced “The Premier and the fainter.”