Although the
schlemiel and schlimazel of traditional Jewish humor would continue to reproduce American versions and characters as set forth by Cohen and Wisse, a new form of Jewish humor would also be necessary to reflect the new world realities of a Jewish culture that was increasingly assimilated, empowered, and intermarried.
Jewish "diasporic humor" and contemporary Jewish-American identity
"Philip Roth: The
Schlemiel as Fictional Autobiographer." The
Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction.
Bibliography for the study of Philip Roth's work
Arendt's four types are the
schlemiel, the political rebel, the suspect and the man of goodwill.
The practical epistemology in seeing oneself while listening to others
A curious Yiddish-language prologue set in a Polish shtetl establishes a framework in which vigorous disputation and discernment of divine intent are among life's requisites, and so it remains, as Larry, the downtrodden
schlemiel and once and future outcast, shuffles among multiple rabbis and lawyers in an attempt to make sense of what is happening to him.
A Serious Man
Statelessness was characterized as "repugnant to the desired principle that every person 'belong,' as a citizen to one of the family of nations." (27) Since Adelbert von Chamisso's work, Peter
Schlemiel, the issue of a man without a country has been seen as dangerous.
Cultural nationalism in exile: the case of Polish and Latvian displaced persons
Such hypocrisy is depicted in Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist: Okhela, the white liberal pseudo-revolutionary group that sends Calaska on a "
schlemiel assignment", does not support the African National Congress, the only authentic Revolutionary vanguard against apartheid.
Religion, Nationalism and Ideology in South African Literature
As for Shlomoh, the PhD student from Columbia College, he is unfit for Adele because of his Melamid and
schlemiel postures.
Jewish men and the early twentieth-century American code of masculinity through ethnic lenses
Halldorson reminds us early on that Pynchon's shabby
schlemiel, which has become the dominant manifestation of contemporary American literary heroes, need not be the last word.
Stephanie S. Halldorson. The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction: The Works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo
SCHLEMIEL - (See above) SCHMALTZ - Sickly-sweet (Although literal translation is 'chicken fat').
LEARN THE YIDDISH LINGO.
Schlemiel that he was; under the chuppa--three times it took to crush the wine glass." She paws the ground like a horse.
Cheer for the laundry
But, as also occurs in Bellow, the consciousness of the
schlemiel makes up the center of Weir's novel.
Parenthetically speaking
In his various plots and characterizations, hiding behind the safety of the mask of a
schlemiel, effeminate personality, he attempts to elevate his masculine status through female conquests, thereby proving himself as a successful player in the patriarchal game of male-male dominance.
Learning and laughing about gender and sexuality through humor: the Woody Allen case