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 fine art. The robust and often hilarious tale tells how Manasseh combines insolence with resourcefulness to reduce London's best-known philanthropist to a fish handler; how he reacts to his daughter's love for a socially inferior beggar; and how he manages to parlay her marriage ...
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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 fine art. The robust and often hilarious tale tells how Manasseh combines insolence with resourcefulness to reduce London's best-known philanthropist to a fish handler; how he reacts to his daughter's love for a socially inferior beggar; and how he manages to parlay her marriage into a life-time pension for himself from his synagogue. Brimming with wit and wisdom and widely regarded as one of the author's most enduring works, "The King of Schnorrers" is a literary gem offering hours of entertaining humor and satire."
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Amusing and fascinating description of a world in London of which I had little knowledge. It is hard to believe that such a social pattern existed in the Jewish scene then.
