Israel Zangwill

Merely Mary Ann Israel Zangwill

Merely Mary Ann is a romantic drama comedy about an orphan and a composer. It was made into a film in 1931. Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia (Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland), he dedicated his life to championing the cause of the oppressed. Jewish emancipation, women's suffrage, assimilationism, territorialism and Zionism (understood as a national liberation movement) were all fertile fields for his pen.