The King of Schnorrers

Name: The King of Schnorrers
Author: Israel Zangwill

by Israel Zangwill

Comic novel of Jewish beggars and swindlers in East London

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Israel Zangwill

Zangwill was the first major English-language novelist to depict Jewish immigrant life with insider knowledge and literary seriousness. Children of the Ghetto brought the East End Jewish community to a wide readership and shaped the genre of immigrant fiction.

More by Israel Zangwill

Children of the GhettoNovel depicting Jewish life in Victorian East London ghetto communities
Ghetto TragediesCollection of tragic stories set within Jewish communities of Victorian London
Dreamers of the GhettoHistorical and biographical sketches of Jewish visionaries and thinkers
The Mantle of Elijah