schlemiel

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In The Bridal Canopy, the Hasid Reb Yudel Nathanson, a deliberately quixotic hero, half saint, half shlemiel, sets out to beg a dowry for his daughters.

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The lovable shlemiel of Sleeper and other banana-peel epics is playing love scenes without his usual co-star and onetime roommate Diane Keaton.

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The label reads "Made in Czarist Russia," but the contents show Allen's familiar shlemiel ticket: the loser, surrounded by a world of hostile, if inanimate, objects.

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Yet another shlemiel, but this one is canonized by Malamud's compassionate talent.

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“I’m a shlemiel or I’m a shlamozzle or whatever it is you people call them, I’ll bite—what did you just see?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols