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Jewish humor, and so-called "
schlemiel jokes"
depict the
schlemiel falling into
unfortunate situations. The
inept schlemiel is
often presented alongside...
-
programming practice:
Schlemiel (also
rendered Shlemiel) is to
paint the
dotted lines down the
middle of a road. Each day,
Schlemiel paints less than he...
-
Larry is in many ways
reminiscent of the
schlemiel character in
traditional Yiddish folklore. The
schlemiel is
usually a
comic character whose actions...
- sell your
shadow to the Devil." The
story po****rized the
Yiddish word
schlemiel for a
hopelessly incompetent person, a bungler. The
story was performed...
- term "****" from
other Yiddish terms for
stupid and
inept persons:
schlemiel, schlimazel, and schmendrik, a
distinction not
properly drawn in dictionaries...
- Schlam****el; OED). The
difference between a
schlemiel and a
schlimazel is
described through the aphorism, "The
schlemiel spills his soup on the schlimazel." Schlock:...
- it is also a statement, an argument, an
attempt at redefinition." The
Schlemiel as a
Modern Hero, Wisse's
first book, a
rewriting of her
doctoral dissertation...
- less "evident in
later seasons of the show". In his
article "Princesses,
Schlemiels,
Punishers and
Overbearing Mothers", Evan
Cooper described Rachel as a...
-
carpenter in the 1899 play
Children of the
Ghetto Schlemiel and
Shlimazl ****
Etiquette for ****s,
Schlemiels,
Schlimazels and Schmendriks, Forward, May...
- The
Brothers Grimm's
Sweetheart Roland;
Adelbert von Chamisso's
Peter Schlemiel; Goethe's
Faust (Mephistopheles uses them at the
start of Part Two, Act...
