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The schlemiel as metaphor; studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish novel.

Author: Sanford Pinsker
Publisher: Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1971]
Series: Crosscurrents/ modern critiques
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Pinsker, Sanford.
Schlemiel as metaphor.
Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1971]
(OCoLC)586056223
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sanford Pinsker
ISBN: 0809304805 9780809304806
OCLC Number: 137386
Description: xii, 172 p. 22 cm.
Contents: Covering some bets beforehand --
The schlemiel's family tree --
"If I were a rich man...", mendele and sholom aleichem --
The schlemiel on Main Street --
The isolated schlemiels of Isaac Bashevis Singer --
The schlemiel as moral bungler: Bernard Malamud's ironic heroes --
The psychological schlemiels of Saul Bellow --
Leaving things open-ended.
Series Title: Crosscurrents/ modern critiques
Responsibility: With a pref. by Harry T. Moore.
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