01555cam a22003133u 4500 23893 UtSlPG 20260610133541.0 m cr n 260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926 The Melting-Pot Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2007 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melting_Pot_(play) Release date is 2007-12-18 Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Melting-Pot" by Israel Zangwill is a play first staged in 1908. It follows David Quixano, a Russian Jewish immigrant who survived a pogrom that killed his family. In America, he composes an "American Symphony" celebrating his vision of a society free from ethnic divisions. When he falls in love with Vera, a Russian Christian immigrant, their romance faces a dramatic confrontation with the past. The play popularized the term "melting pot" as a symbol for American ethnic assimilation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Jews -- Drama https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23893 64925 64925