The King of Schnorrers by Israel Zangwill

The King of Schnorrers

Israel Zangwill

128 pages first pub 1894 (editions)

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Author Israel Zangwill best typifed the comic spirit of London's Jewish ghetto by immortalizing the schnorrer (beggar) — in particular, the character of Manasseh Bueno Barzillai Azevedo da Costa, a Sephardic panhandler who developed begging into a...

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