-
Sigmund Mogulesko in an 1877
comedy Shmendrik, oder di
komishe Chaseneh (
Schmendrik or The
Comical Wedding) by
Abraham Goldfaden. The play was
inspired by...
-
Yiddish terms for
stupid and
inept persons: schlemiel, schlimazel, and
schmendrik, a
distinction not
properly drawn in dictionaries.
After a
number of comparisons...
-
komishe Chaseneh (Yiddish: שמענדריק, אָדער, די קאָמישע חתונה, English:
Schmendrik or The
Comical Wedding) is an 1877
comedy by
Abraham Goldfaden, one of...
- a **** can
improve himself while "a schlemiel, a
schlimazel and a
schmendrik are
irredeemably what they are". The
etymology of the term is unsure....
- Hotye-mir un Zaytye-mir (Leftovers) 1877 Shmendrik, oder Di
komishe Chaseneh (
Schmendrik or The
Comical Wedding) 1877, 1879
Shuster un
Shnayder (Shoemaker and...
- is the quarter's
matchmaker who
usually works on commission.
Shosshi Schmendrik is a shy carpenter,
socially awkward, who
unwisely has paid
Sugarman in...
