Editing Israel Zangwill (section)

==Early life and education==
Zangwill was born in [[Whitechapel]], London on 21 January 1864, in a family of [[Jewish]] immigrants from the [[Russian Empire]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Rubin |first=Philip |date=28 September 1951 |title=Israel Zangwill (25th yahrtzeit) |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116105010/israel-zangwill-25th-yahrtzeit/ 1], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116105174/israel-zangwill-continuation/ 8] |work=The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116105010/israel-zangwill-25th-yahrtzeit/ |access-date=9 January 2023}}</ref> His father, Moses Zangwill, was from what is now [[Latvia]], and his mother, Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill, was from what is now [[Poland]]. He dedicated his life to championing the cause of people he considered oppressed, becoming involved with topics such as [[Jewish emancipation]], [[Jewish assimilation]], [[Homeland for the Jewish people|territorialism]], [[Zionism]], and [[women's suffrage]]. His brother was novelist [[Louis Zangwill]].<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=27&letter=Z Louis Zangwill] in Jewish Encyclopedia</ref>

Zangwill received his early schooling in Plymouth and Bristol.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=2 August 1926 |title=Israel Zangvill is Dead – Jewish Author and Zionist Worker Dies of Pneumonia |page=3 |work=The Kansas City Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116122180/israel-zangvill-is-dead-jewish-author/ |access-date=9 January 2023}}</ref> When he was eight years old, his parents moved to Spitalfields, East London and he was enrolled in the [[Jews' Free School]] there, a school for Jewish immigrant children.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=North Mail Newcastle Daily Chronicle|date= 2 Aug 1926|page= 1 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/792840083/ |access-date=9 January 2023 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref> The school offered a strict course of both secular and religious studies while supplying clothing, food, and health care for the scholars; presently one of its four houses is named Zangwill in his honour. At this school he excelled and even taught part-time, eventually becoming a full-fledged teacher.

While teaching, he studied for his degree from the [[University of London]], earning a BA with triple honours in 1884.