Citations:schnorr

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English citations of schnorr

  • 1920, Sammy Gronemann, translated by Penny Milbouer, Utter Chaos (Jewish Literature and Culture)‎[1], Indiana University Press, published 2016, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:
    Here everyone can work!—So it's a disgrace to go begging and schnorring—even if there's no deceit.
  • 1977, Avraham Shama, Mark Iris, Immigration Without Integration: Third World Jews in Israel[2], Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 33:
    This led to the old “definition” of a Zionist: “A Zionist is a Jew who schnorrs (begs) money from a second Jew to finance the settlement of a third Jew in Israel.”
  • 1988, The Economist[3], volume 307, numbers 7544-7547, Economist Newspaper Limited, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 113:
    Half its revenue, therefore, must come from begging, or "schnorring" as the Jewish world calls it.
  • 1996, David G. Roskies, A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling[4], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:
    Local customs were an invitation to schnorr, carouse, and otherwise violate the norms of civilized behavior.
  • 2008 January 1, Bernie Brillstein, Where Did I Go Right?[5], Phoenix Books, →ISBN:
    Somehow I schnorred my way into working as an assistant to Wally Jordan, head of the New York television department.
  • 2010, Leonard Borman, Our Jewish Robot Future: A Novel about the Garden of Eden and the Cyborgian Transformation of the Human Race[6], Scarletta Press, →ISBN:
    I concluded he was attempting to schnorr money from a rich relative.
  • 2011, Jarrod Tanny, City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa[7], Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
    Scholars generally maintain that schnorring has been common among Jews—both in reality and in folklore—because the Torah explicitly orders those with financial means to help the poor.
  • 2012 June 19, Lisa Silverman, Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars[8], Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
    An impoverished Jewish writer from Galicia, Gurdweill spends most days wandering Vienna's streets, eating and drinking in its cafes, and trying to schnorr (beg for) money from acquaintances for food, drink, and cigarettes.
  • 2019 August 13, Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks[9], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OCLC:
    I recorded everything and put together a spectacular film—and spectacular it was—which I now showed to the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, from which I was able to schnorr ... I mean, raise $55,000 to keep the experiment and its documentation going.