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

Sanford Pinsker

192 pages • first pub 1971 (view editions)

nonfiction classics literary challenging reflective medium-paced
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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 psychologic...

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