Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1902 — Zangwill Had a Hard Straggle. [ARTICLE]

Zangwill Had a Hard Straggle.

Mr. Zangwtll had a hard struggle with adversity before he achieved fame. Bom in the Ghetto of very poor parents they are alien Immigrants —- he recleved his education at the Jews’ Free School In Spltalflelds, 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. Hs never spent 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 Painter."