Portraits of Jews who dreamed of changing the world - Spinoza, Uriel Acosta, Heine, Lassalle, the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Zangwill wrote them as linked studies and they are the most ambitious thing he attempted. This edition is bound with a gallery of 57 plates of painting, among them works by Edvard Munch, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney and John Singleton Copley, dating from 1729 to 1910.