Schlemiel Incompetent person (Example: The schlemiel accidentally drops a bowl of soup.) Schlimazel Unlucky (Example: The schlimazel is the one the soup falls on.)
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Neither a schlemiel, nor ever a schlimazel, she shall be missed by her many fans.
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I had a Yiddish-speaking grandma and I remember hearing schmendrick, schlemiel and schlamozzle, but I think SCHMUCK was verboten.
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" According to Kinsey, after a long day of filming, she and Fischer started skipping through the parking lot while linking arms and singing "Schlemiel!
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I didn't catch on at first, and tried to fit SCHLEMIEL into 18 Across, because who else might cause a spill at a cafeteria?
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Italo Svevo, "Zeno's Conscience": Amidst the rich literature of The Higher Schlemiel there is no greater book, not least in the narrator's Homeric struggle to find a reason powerful enough to give up smoking.
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Now as then, Mr. Leguizamo paints himself as a sitcom stick figure: a lovable schlemiel to his Jewish wife (who is "intolerant of intolerance") and a dunderheaded dad to his up-speaking teenage daughter.
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He's like a hyper-empowered schlemiel — I'm using the Yiddish word for the guy who proverbially spills his borscht all over you — while turning the rest of us into his schlimazels, the ones who get spilled on.
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You may be familiar with Mr. Phillips from his web series "Henry's Kitchen," on which he plays the worst chef ever, or from this movie's 2010 forerunner, "Punching the Clown," in which he also played a version of himself as an archetypal schlemiel.
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The sketch itself endures for a number of reasons: Its simple premise delivering myriad laugh lines, the clear schlemiel-schlimazel dynamic between performers, the room it provides for embellishment, and the rat-a-tat delivery make it feel like a ramshackle Ford Model T gathering speed as it barrels toward the edge of a cliff.
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Schlemiel (; sometimes spelled shlemiel or shlumiel) is a Yiddish term meaning "incompetent person" or "fool". It is a common archetype in Jewish humor, and so-called "schlemiel jokes" depict the schlemiel falling into unfortunate situations.
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The inept schlemiel is often presented alongside the unlucky schlimazel. A Yiddish saying explains that "a schlemiel is somebody who often spills his soup and a schlimazel is the person it lands on". The schlemiel is similar to the schmuck but, as stated in a 2010 essay in The Forward, a schmuck can improve himself while a schlemiel is "irredeemably what they are". While the etymology of the term is unknown, one popular theory is that it comes from the Hebrew term , meaning "useless".
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The Schlemiel as a Modern Hero, Wisse's first book, a rewriting of her doctoral dissertation "in a vigorously fresh and witty style," is about the schlemiel as both a type and a literary genre with its origins in the Yiddish literature in the period of Jewish emancipation.Avni, Abraham. Comparative Literature, vol. 25, no.
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PP. 22 sq., available online at and Carl Wilhelm Schlemiel (1916—1918). Schlemiel's American Families of German Ancestry. Vol. 3. P. 370.
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Where does this schlemiel get the idea he's an actor and a playwright? He should go into a different business. And so on. It didn't make me feel too good.
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In Jewish folklore, Schlemiel and Schlimazl are two popular subtypes of a fool. The following saying helps to tell them apart: a schlemiel is a man who spills hot soup on a schlimazl: the first one is clueless, while the second one is luckless. Numbskull/noodlehead stories are about well-meaning folks who take an advice too literally to their own grievance or who find the most complicated solution to the most simple problem. However, sometimes they may end with luck ("serendipitous fool").
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Sometimes they call me the Yiddish Charlie Chaplin, and I don't like this. Chaplin's dope is a little bit of a wiseguy. He's got a little larceny in him. I am a pure schlemiel, with no string attached.
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Richard Lester Liebman was born to a Jewish familyHaaretz: "Superman, Man of Schlemiel? - Superman, the invention of two U.S. Jews, is a profoundly Jewish character whose film history is entwined with that of American Jewry" by Nathan Abrams June 16, 2013 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A child prodigy, he began studies at the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 15.
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In software development, a Shlemiel the painter's algorithm (sometimes, Shlemiel the painter algorithm, not to be confused with "Painter's algorithm") is a method that is inefficient because the programmer has overlooked some fundamental issues at the very lowest levels of software design. The term was coined in 2001 by Spolsky, who used a Yiddish joke to illustrate a certain poor 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 painted the day before, and complains that it is because each day he gets farther away from the paint can, and it takes him longer to go back and put paint on his brush. The inefficiency to which Spolsky was drawing an analogy was the poor programming practice of repeated concatenation of C-style null-terminated strings.
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Shirley (left) and Laverne (right) At the start of each episode, Laverne and Shirley are skipping down a Milwaukee street, arm in arm, reciting a Yiddish-American hopscotch chant: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated," which then leads into the series' theme song, "Making Our Dreams Come True" performed by Cyndi Grecco. The hopscotch chant is from Penny Marshall's childhood.
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One type is the Bellovian Hero, often described as a schlemiel. Eugene Henderson, in company with most of Bellow's main characters, can be given this description, in the opinion of some people. Another is what Bellow calls the "Reality-Instructor"; in Henderson the Rain King, King Dahfu fills this role. In Seize the Day, the instructor is played by Dr. Tamkin, while in Humboldt's Gift, Humboldt von Fleisher takes the part.
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Born in Warsaw, Poland, Skulnik reportedly ran away at the age of 10 to join a circus. In 1913 he emigrated to the United States, and sometime after his arrival joined a Yiddish stock company in Philadelphia, where his fellow actors included Molly Picon. His diminutive stature (5'4"), high nasal voice, mannerisms and appearance, made him a natural for comedy. Skulnik knew exactly what he was in comedy: "I play a schlemiel, a dope.
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Another theory is that the word is derived from the name Shelumiel, an Israeli chieftain. Others claim that the term originated with the character Peter Schlemihl, the main character of a novella by Adelbert von Chamisso. According to Harvard University literature professor Ruth Wisse, the schlemiel as a type emerges in the Yiddish literature of the period of Jewish emancipation.The Shlemiel as a Modern Hero, by Ruth Wisse, University of Chicago Press, 1971.
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The story, intended for children, was widely read and the character became a common cultural reference in many countries. People generally remembered the element of the shadow better than how the story ended, simplifying Chamisso's lesson to the idiom "don't sell your shadow to the Devil." The Yiddish word schlemiel—borrowed from Hebrew shlumi'el—refers to a hopelessly incompetent person, a bungler. Consequently, the name is a synonym of one who makes a desperate or silly bargain.
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Richard Schwartzberg was born in the Bronx to Jewish parents,Vanity Fair: "The Rude Warrior" by Peter Biskind March 2011 Hattie and Fred Schwartzberg.Variety Magazine: "Vet helmer’s long and boffo road" by Beverly Walker July 31, 1997Haaretz: "Superman, Man of Schlemiel? - Superman, the invention of two U.S. Jews, is a profoundly Jewish character whose film history is entwined with that of American Jewry" by Nathan Abrams June 16, 2013 His father owned a small furniture manufacturing business. He has a sister, Joan.
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A Cool Million, as its subtitle suggests, presents “the dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin,” piece by piece. As a satire of the Horatio Alger myth of success, the novel is evocative of Voltaire’s Candide, which satirized the philosophical optimism of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alexander Pope. Pitkin is a typical ‘Schlemiel’, stumbling from one situation to the next; he gets robbed, cheated, unjustly arrested, frequently beaten and exploited. In a parallel plot Betty Prail, Pitkin's love interest, is raped, abused, and sold into prostitution.
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Konner was raised in a Jewish family.Haaretz: "Superman, Man of Schlemiel? - Superman, the invention of two U.S. Jews, is a profoundly Jewish character whose film history is entwined with that of American Jewry" by Nathan Abrams June 16, 2013 He began his career as a writer for television of the shows Little House on the Prairie, Family and Remington Steele. Since then he has written episodes of the HBO series The Sopranos, one of which was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramatic Writing.
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After his early introduction to Irish poetry he became involved in staging Irish-language amateur drama at the Oireachtas annual music festival. Béaslaí began to write both original works and adaptations from foreign languages. One of these works, Eachtra Pheadair Schlemiel (1909), was translated from German into Irish. Later he continued to write poetry, such as the collection “Bealtaine 1916” agus Dánta Eile (1920), and short stories such as "Earc agus Aine agus Scéalta Eile". Between 1913 and 1939 he wrote many plays, including Cliuche Cartaí (1920), An Sgaothaire agus Cúig Drámaí Eile (1929), An Danar (1929) and An Bhean Chródha (1931).
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Jazz musician Don Byron recorded a tribute to Mickey Katz in 1993 entitled Don Byron Plays The Music of Mickey Katz. The 2003 British movie Wondrous Oblivion featured Katz' "The Barber of Schlemiel" (a parody of The Barber of Seville) in a scene where the Jewish main character played the record for his Jamaican neighbor. Katz supplied the voice of the character Hop-a-Long Catskill on the Beany and Cecil cartoon series on ABC-TV in 1962. Catskill was a frog, and the role was a parody of the role of Chester on the television series Gunsmoke.
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His surname was first mentioned in the episode "Park Safety". He is often the butt of jokes and is frequently mocked by his co-workers , with his most frequent detractors being Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari) and April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza). Although he never joins in the teasing, Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) describes Jerry as someone who "shrivels up when you shine a light on him," insisting Jerry does his best work alone. Ron also describes Jerry as both the "schlemiel," and the "schlemazel," of the office, meaning that, at a fancy dinner party, he would be both the person who spills soup and the person upon whom the soup is spilled.
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Each subsequent call to `strcat()` has to compute the length again before concatenating another name to the `buffer`. Analogous to Schlemiel not carrying the paint bucket (or the string's length) with him, all the subsequent `strcat()`s have to "walk" the length of the string again to determine where the second string should be copied. As more data is added to `buffer` with each call to `strcat()`, that terminating null character also gets farther away from the beginning, meaning that subsequent calls are increasingly slow. The problems illustrated by Spolsky's example are not noticed by a programmer who is using a high-level language and has little or no understanding of how the language implementation works, including some basic knowledge of its underlying principles and functions.
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It is his attempt to retain a sense of basic human dignity, however - his desire to prove that he is not 'an altogether worthless person' - that lies at the heart of the novel and invests it with meaning and resonance." Georgia Jones-Davis, writing for the Los Angeles Times, speculated that "Slavitt is not so much telling a story as using his narrative to spoof everything he's probably come across in his distinguished and, let's face it, long academic career." Although Jones-Davis confusedly thought The Cliff "too self-consciously satirical to pass as a real novel," she found much to praise: "There are some wondrously funny moments. Our brilliant, moody, schlemiel of a narrator, a guy who can't even make his rent, is highly critical of the food served at this historic villa.
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Our annual silent auction will be held at two performances of "Schlemiel! Shlimazel! Celebrating the Cream City" on Saturday, June 16 at 5:00 pm and 7:30 pm. The 2010-2011 season consisted of "The Poet Sings" on Saturday, December 4 at 7:30pm and Sunday, December 5 at 3:00 pm. "The Creators: Heros of the Imagination" will be held on Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, April 17 at 3:00 pm. The season ends with "Shakespeare in Song" with two performances on Saturday, June 18 at 5:00 pm and 7:30 pm. The 2008-2009 season consisted of "One World: Dare To Dream" on Saturday, December 13 at 7:30pm. This is followed by "Whirled Music" to be held on April 18 at 7:30pm along with the annual silent auction.
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It Was You Charlie (the title refers to On the Waterfront) explores the lonely life of Abner (Michael D. Cohen) a short, schluby, suicidally-depressed former teacher-artist turned graveyard shift doorman and the fierce sibling rivalry he endures (if not imagines) with Tom (Aaron Abrams), his tall, handsome, lady-killing brother. Abner also harbours a tragic secret that has debilitated his professional and personal life while Tom not only seems to have everything going for him, but also scores with Madeleine (Anna Hopkins), the babe our haplessly loveable schlemiel has long held a torch for. Zoe, a mysterious young blonde cab driver in a bright yellow beret, appears in Abner’s life, but for reasons he cannot understand. Nor does he understand the repeated appearance of strange men in trench coats who seem to follow him wherever he goes.
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Furie was born to a Jewish familyHaaretz: "Superman, Man of Schlemiel? - Superman, the invention of two U.S. Jews, is a profoundly Jewish character whose film history is entwined with that of American Jewry" by Nathan Abrams June 16, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1933, and attended Vaughan Road Collegiate and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He worked as a writer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where, in 1957, he wrote and directed a feature-length drama, A Dangerous Age. A dark variation on the Romeo and Juliet story, it starred Ben Piazza and Anne Pearson as teenage lovers on the run from the authorities, unable to legally elope and get married. A cash-in on then trend of "juvenile delinquent" films, it was nonetheless something of a landmark in Canadian cinema, one of the first times the country had seriously marketed a film overseas.
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According to a midrash (Tanhuma Pinhas 2.1; Sanhedrin 82b), Zimri was the same person as Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.. Peretz Rodman, "Shelumiel — The First Schlemiel?", The Forward, 26 May 2006. According to the Revelations of Saint Bridget, after his death, Zimri's soul was condemned to hell (Book 7, Chapter 19). Some Islamic scholars link Zimrī to the figure of as-Sāmirī (الـسّٰامِرِي), the builder of the original golden calf ― though this is only one of several theories for the man’s identityRubin, Uri. "Tradition in Transformation: the Ark of the Covenant and the Golden Calf in Biblical and Islamic Historiography," Oriens (Volume 36, 2001): 202.. The Phineas Priests, a modern-day U.S. terrorist movement, believe the story of Phinehas and Zimrī provides a divine mandate for committing atrocities against mixed-race couples; despite (argues Rees 2013) the previous divine rebuke of Miriam in , for criticising Moses for marrying a “Cushite woman,” which confounds this reading.
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Per Michael K. Walonen, the novel: > focuses on the American university, long seen as a bastion of resistance or > at least indifference to the world of money, that has now become enmeshed in > the world of finance. The Ask narrates the story of middle-aged schlemiel > Milo Burke, a solicitor of donations in the development office of the third- > rate college he dubs ‘the Mediocre University at New York City’. Early in > the text, Milo is fired for impugning the artistic talent of a self-entitled > daughter of a wealthy donor to the university, and for having been accused > of sexual harassment by Horace, an ambitious young male office temp worker > who later claims the complaint was meant in jest. > The bulk of the rest of the narrative focuses on Milo’s steady estrangement > from his wife Maura and his attempt to get his job back through soliciting a > large donation from Purdy, a wealthy former college friend who asks in > return that Milo function as bagman go-between with the angry, estranged son > he never knew he had, who has recently return from the Iraq War minus his > legs.
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