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King of Schnorrers, The
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By: Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) THE LIBRARY BY ZANGWILL CHAPTER I. SHOWING HOW THE WICKED PHILANTHROPIST WAS TURNED INTO A FISH-PORTER. IN the days when Lord George Gordon became a Jew, and was suspected of insanity ; when, out of respect for the prophecies, England denied her Jews every civic right except that of paying taxes ; when the Gentleman's Maga- zine had ill words for the infidel alien ; when Jewish mar- riages were invalid and bequests for Hebrew colleges void ; when a prophet prophesying Primrose Day would have been set in the stocks, though Pitt inclined his private ear to Benjamin Goldsmid's views on the foreign loans in those days, when Tevele Schiff was Rabbi in Israel, and Dr. de Falk, the Master of the Tetragrammaton, saint and Cabbalistic conjuror, flourished in Wellclose Square, and the composer of The Death of Nelson was a choir-boy in the

King of Schnorrers, The

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By: Israel Zangwill (1864-1926)

THE LIBRARY
BY ZANGWILL
CHAPTER I.

SHOWING HOW THE WICKED PHILANTHROPIST WAS TURNED INTO A FISH-PORTER. IN the days when Lord George Gordon became a Jew, and was suspected of insanity ; when, out of respect for the prophecies, England denied her Jews every civic right except that of paying taxes ; when the Gentleman's Maga- zine had ill words for the infidel alien ; when Jewish mar- riages were invalid and bequests for Hebrew colleges void ; when a prophet prophesying Primrose Day would have been set in the stocks, though Pitt inclined his private ear to Benjamin Goldsmid's views on the foreign loans in those days, when Tevele Schiff was Rabbi in Israel, and Dr. de Falk, the Master of the Tetragrammaton, saint and Cabbalistic conjuror, flourished in Wellclose Square, and the composer of The Death of Nelson was a choir-boy in the

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Reviewer: Philippe Horak - 4/11/2008 16:23 Subject: A very nice reading - questionable "Zangwill" humour Written with great satirical perception and an unerring sense of wry, preposterous humor, the book relates the adventures of Manasseh Bueno Barzillai Azevedo da Costa, a proud, resourceful Sephardic schnorrer (or beggar) who lords it over his fellow mendicants in London of the late 1790s. Faced with the marriage of his daughter to a man he considers a socially inferior beggar, Manasseh uses all the powers of his intellect to deal successfully−−and with comic repercussions−−with what he perceives as serious problems of life. Widely regarded as one of the author's most enduring works, this witty and wise literary gem pokes fun at the prejudices dividing London's Jewish community in the late eighteenth century. The story is full of clichés about the stinginess of the Jews etc... Not everybody's cup of tea... The recording is excellent, however. Five stars for Mr Adrian Praetzellis but only three stars for the book.

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Reviewer: Philippe Horak - 4/11/2008 16:23
Subject: A very nice reading - questionable "Zangwill" humour
Written with great satirical perception and an unerring sense of wry, preposterous humor, the book relates the adventures of Manasseh Bueno Barzillai Azevedo da Costa, a proud, resourceful Sephardic schnorrer (or beggar) who lords it over his fellow mendicants in London of the late 1790s. Faced with the marriage of his daughter to a man he considers a socially inferior beggar, Manasseh uses all the powers of his intellect to deal successfully−−and with comic repercussions−−with what he perceives as serious problems of life. Widely regarded as one of the author's most enduring works, this witty and wise literary gem pokes fun at the prejudices dividing London's Jewish community in the late eighteenth century. The story is full of clichés about the stinginess of the Jews etc... Not everybody's cup of tea... The recording is excellent, however. Five stars for Mr Adrian Praetzellis but only three stars for the book.

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