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Hardcover The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel Book
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ISBN: 0809304805

ISBN13: 9780809304806

The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel

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The certainty that deep down we are all schlemiels is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public.

In this unique, revised history of the schlemiel, Sanford Pinsker uses psychological, linguistic, and anecdotal approaches, as well as his considerable skills as a spritely storyteller, to trace the schlemiel from his beginnings in the Old Testament through...

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