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Author Pinsker, Sanford.

Title The schlemiel as metaphor; studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish novel / With a pref. by Harry T. Moore.

Publication Info. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press [1971]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  809.88 P658S    Check Shelf
Description xii, 172 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Crosscurrents/ modern critiques
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Subject Schlemiels in literature.
Yiddish fiction -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
Judaism and literature -- United States -- History.
Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.
Jews in literature.
Metaphor.
ISBN 0809304805
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