The King of Schnorrers

Manasseh da Costa and Yankele: "Vat more proof do you vant of my begging powers?" demanded Yankele, spreading out his palms and shrugging his shoulders.

The King of Schnorrers is Israel Zangwill's 1894 picaresque novel,[1] a collection of amusing tragicomic episodes of schnorring by "Manasseh Bueno Barzillai Azevedo da Costa, thenceforward universally recognised, and hereby handed down to tradition, as the King of Schnorrers", in England on the break of 18th/19th centuries, illustrated by Jewish prints and caricatures of the period.[2]

  1. ^ Milton Hindus, "The King of Schnorrers, by Israel Zangwill", Commentary, March 1954
  2. ^ The King of Schnorrers, text at Project Gutenberg