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Gollancz was born on July 13, 1863, in London, England, to Rabbi Samuel Marcus Gollancz, cantor of the Hambro Synagogue, London, and his wife, Johanna Koppell.
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Gollancz was born on July 13, 1863, in London, England, to Rabbi Samuel Marcus Gollancz, cantor of the Hambro Synagogue, London, and his wife, Johanna Koppell.
He studied at University College, London, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.
Sir Israel Gollancz was lecturer in English at Cambridge from 1896 to 1906, then professor of English language and literature at the University of London, a post he held until his death.
He was the first secretary of the British Academy. An outstanding student of Shakespeare, he edited the Temple Shakespeare (1894) and Sources of Hamlet (1926). He also edited the King's Library series, the Temple Classics, Gawain and the Grene Knight for the Early English Text Society, and the Exeter Book of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (1895). Gollancz was knighted in 1919.
In 1916, as Honorary Secretary of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee, Sir Israel Gollancz also edited A book of homage to Shakespeare, an anthology of responses to Shakespeare from scholars, thinkers and other prominent figures from around the world.
In the year of his death, the British Academy held a memorial lecture in his name, at which they unveiled a bust of Sir Israel.
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In 1910, Israel married Alide Goldschmidt in London.
