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The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies

The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies

I. Zangwill

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ISBN10: 1718780052
ISBN13: 9781718780057
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 6 2018
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
These episodes make no claim to veracity, while the personages are not even sun-myths. I have merely amused myself and attempted to amuse idlers by incarnating the floating tradition of the Jewish_ SCHNORRER, _who is as unique among beggars as Israel among nations. The close of the eighteenth century was chosen for a background, because, while the most picturesque period of Anglo-Jewish history, it has never before been exploited in fiction, whether by novelists or historians. To my friend, Mr. Asher I. Myers, I am indebted for access to his unique collection of Jewish prints and caricatures of the period, and I have not been backward in_ SCHNORRING _suggestions from him and other private humourists. My indebtedness to my artists is more obvious, from my old friend George Hutchinson to my newer friend Phil May, who has been good enough to allow me to reproduce from his Annuals the brilliant sketches illustrating two of the shorter stories. Of these shorter stories it only remains to be said there are both tragic and comic, and I will not usurp the critic's prerogative by determining which is which.

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