Editing Schnorrer (section)

==Historical==
A large number of beggars appeared in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] after the pogroms of the [[Khmelnytsky Uprising]], when many homes were destroyed. Schnorrers begged for themselves, for the [[dowry|dowries]] of poor brides ({{langx|yi|הכנסת-כלה|hakhnóses-kale}}), or for the restoration of a house that had burned down.<ref name="virtual library">{{cite web |title=Begging and Beggars |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/begging-and-beggars |website=[[Jewish Virtual Library]] |publisher=American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise |access-date=19 June 2024}}</ref> This practice was allowed even when it disrupted the public study of the [[Torah]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} [[Azriel Hildesheimer]] was described as the "international schnorrer" for his calls for philanthropy in many countries he visited.<ref name="hildesheimer">{{cite web |last1=Singer |first1=Isidore |last2=Schloessinger |first2=Max |title=HILDESHEIMER, ISRAEL (AZRIEL) |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7693-hildesheimer-israel-azriel |website=[[Jewish Encyclopedia]] |access-date=19 June 2024}}</ref>

Milton Hindus, commenting on the [[picaresque novel]] ''[[The King of Schnorrers]]'', wrote that the Jews did not regard outcasts as failures, and assumed social responsibility for them. "Properly exploited by a fertile intelligence like Menasseh’s, this attitude enables the ostensible mendicant to become the actual master in the eleemosynary relationship."<ref name=mihi>Milton Hindus, "[https://www.commentary.org/articles/milton-hindus/the-king-of-schnorrers-by-israel-zangwill/ The King of Schnorrers, by Israel Zangwill]", ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]'', March 1954</ref>