United States or Republic of the Congo ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It was probably as a concession to him that poor men, who were neither seat-holders nor wearers of chimney-pot hats, were penned within an iron enclosure near the door of the building and ranged on backless benches, and it says much for the authority of the Shammos that not even the Schnorrer contested it. Prayers were shouted rapidly by the congregation, and elaborately sung by the Chazan.
Mind you, Mr. Perlmutter, I wouldn't say nothing if it would be really the chief of police which would open the package, but always it is some poor Schnorrer which the chief of police calls in from the street. This time it was a feller by the name Levin, a decent, respectable, young feller his father was a Rav. The old man is coming over here this week, I understand, Mr.
"Lend thee ?" exclaimed Malka. "Why, how canst thou ever repay it?" "Oh yes," affirmed Esther earnestly. "I have lots of money in the bank." "Eh! what? In the bank!" gasped Malka. "Yes. I won five pounds in the school and I'll pay you out of that." "Thy father never told me that!" said Malka. "He kept that dark. Ah, he is a regular Schnorrer!"
But true religion, as Maimonides says, is the attainment of perfection through the knowledge of God and the imitation of His actions." Nevertheless, when they begged together, Maimon produced an inarticulate whine that would do either for a plea or a curse. When he begged alone, all the glib formulæ he had learnt from the Schnorrer dried up on his tongue.
'That is fortunate, as I have just sold my last. But in the way of waterproofs, we have a new pattern, very seasonable. 'No, no; I didn't come for a waterproof. 'These oilskins 'I didn't come to buy anything. 'Ah, you wish to sell me something. 'Not that either. The fact is, I've come to beg of you, as one Jew to another 'A Schnorrer! interrupted Simeon Samuels.
"You don't impress me with your airs. Try them on people who don't know what you were a Schnorrer's daughter. Yes, your father was always a Schnorrer and you are his child. It's in the blood. Ha! Ha! Ha! Moses Ansell's daughter! Moses Ansell's daughter a peddler, who went about the country with brass jewelry and stood in the Lane with lemons and schnorred half-crowns of my father.
"What a waste of good rags!" said the Schnorrer. "What a waste of good muscle!" retorted Maimon; for the beggar was a strapping fellow in rude health. "If I had your shoulders I should hold my head higher on them." The Schnorrer shrugged them. "Only fools work. What has work brought you? Rags. You begin with work and end with rags. I begin with rags and end with meals."
In my country even in your own Ghetto the Jews do not despise money, but at least piety and learning are the titles to position and honor. Here the scholar is classed with the Schnorrer; if an artist or an author is admired, it is for his success. You are right; it is oxen that carry your Ark of the Covenant fat oxen. You admire them, Leon; you are an Englishman, and cannot stand outside it all.
'Oh, Lord, I ought to have recognised you by that synagogue beginning. 'Me, a Schnorrer! The little man swelled skywards. 'Me, Solomon Barzinsky, whose shop stood in Sudminster twenty years before you poked your nose in 'I beg your pardon. There! you see I'm a beggar, too. And Simeon Samuels laughed mirthlessly. 'Well, you've come to beg of me. And his fingers caressed his patriarchal beard.
"Ho, you're sending me away, are you?" he said in angry surprise. "I am certainly suggesting it as the wisest course." "Oh, don't give me any of your fine phrases!" he said brutally. "I see what it is I've made a mistake. You're a stuck-up, conceited little thing. You think because you live in a grand house nobody is good enough for you. But what are you after all? a Schnorrer that's all.
Word Of The Day