[Cz-L] an essay on von Rezzori; hochstapler, schwitzer

FYI: In the Dec. 4 issue of The New York Review of Books (NYRB):
"Luminous Memoir of a Lost World", an essay by John Banville, based on
his introduction to the just-reissued edition of "The Snows of
Yesteryear". NYRB is the publisher.

Interestingly enough, in Polish, hochstapler spelled hosztapler, is
elevated to the status of con man. As for schwitzer, it enjoyed a wide
usage among Polish Jews, including the non-speakers of Yddish, to
describe a habitual self-aggrandizer. So I wonder whether the assertion
about the word's Czernowitz provenance is correct.

Ina Lancman
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