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

by Sanford Pinsker and Professor Sanford Pinsker B.A. Ph.D.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809304805
• ISBN13: 9780809304806
• Release Date: March 1971
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 8.3"