schlemiel
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My professional philosophy may amount to little more than avoiding becoming the iced-coffee schlemiel.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
A Jew writing in German, “Kafka sees that the schlemiel loses. He sees it through to the tragic end,” as European Jewry soon would.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Played by Noah Segan, the film’s writer-director, Francis is Jewish and speaks Yiddish; sometimes schlep and schlemiel just make his points better.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
And so the schlemiel became a stand-in for a generation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2021
“No, like an utter schlemiel, I just walked in there. I don’t know what I was thinking.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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