Title of a play by the British Jewish author and activist Israel Zangwill (1864−1926), first performed in 1908 in Washington. “Melting pot” is also a concept within America’s political discourse, popularized by the play, according to which the United States, like a melting pot, transforms immigrants from all over the world into new people, Americans. There is some tension between this concept and the thinking of Jewish territorialism, which Zangwill supported at the same time.