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Who is the Slave? The Schlemiel as Masochist in Italo Svevo’s “Confessions of Zeno”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2021/08/19/who-is-the-master-who-is-the-slave-the-schlemiel-as-masochist-in-italo-svevos-confessions-of-zeno/", "published_at": "2021-08-19T21:48:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be06-3e0d-726e-8ae3-e7e4b605aa7c", "title": "Comical Addictions: Schlemiels and Cigarettes in Italo Svevo’s “Confessions of Zeno”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2021/08/17/comical-addictions-schlemiels-and-cigarettes-in-italo-svevos-confessions-of-zeno/", "published_at": "2021-08-17T18:28:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be06-3e0d-726e-8ae3-e7e4b6dd300a", "title": "Sketches of Schlemiel-Consciousness: On Italo Svevo’s “Confessions of Zeno”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2021/08/08/sketches-of-schlemiel-consciousness-on-italo-svevos-confessions-of-zeno/", "published_at": "2021-08-08T19:31:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-0881-72e0-ae09-8f9df7497ebb", "title": "Alfred Kazin: a Jew, an American, and a NYC 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"2021-03-17T20:06:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-0881-72e0-ae09-8f9df8f71543", "title": "Happy Birthday to Jerry Lewis, a Legendary American Schlemiel", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2021/03/16/happy-birthday-to-jerry-lewis-a-legendary-american-schlemiel/", "published_at": "2021-03-16T15:03:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-0881-72e0-ae09-8f9df9dcdb60", "title": "Not Jewish American Comedy, Or Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman are doing something else with their time", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2021/03/11/not-jewish-american-comedy-or-seth-rogen-and-sarah-silverman-are-doing-something-else-with-their-time/", "published_at": "2021-03-11T19:36:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-0881-72e0-ae09-8f9dfac37261", "title": "On Seth Rogen’s Tweeted Response to My and (The) Essential Schlemiel Question", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2021/01/10/on-seth-rogens-tweeted-response-to-my-and-the-essential-schlemiel-question/", "published_at": "2021-01-10T17:34:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-0881-72e0-ae09-8f9dfb515cfe", "title": "Walser and Kafka’s Literary Dogs", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2020/12/14/walser-and-kafkas-literary-dogs/", "published_at": "2020-12-14T00:36:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-0881-72e0-ae09-8f9dfc4ec16c", "title": "Morning, Night…Smallness Again: Robert Walser’s Tzimtzum Reflection", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2020/12/11/morning-night-smallness-again-robert-walsers-tzimtzum-reflection/", "published_at": "2020-12-11T20:40:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0be12-0881-72e0-ae09-8f9dfcb925fb", "title": "Happy Birthday to a Schlemiel Who Just Happens to Come from New York", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2020/12/01/happy-birthday-to-a-schlemiel-who-just-happens-to-come-from-new-york/", "published_at": "2020-12-01T18:34:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd46-e7fe-7353-887e-6655e857bfdf", "title": "Consciousness of the Endless Loss of Small Things: Elias Canetti’s Portrait of the Happy Loser", "url": 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"https://schlemielintheory.com/2020/05/07/a-shtreimel-in-the-mud-the-schlemiel-the-mensch-freuds-male-fantasies/", "published_at": "2020-05-07T23:18:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd46-e7fe-7353-887e-6655ebd70670", "title": "Kierkegaard’s “Happy” Birthday: “Repetition’s Love is the Only Happy Love”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2020/05/05/kierkegaards-happy-birthday-repetitions-love-is-the-only-happy-love/", "published_at": "2020-05-05T15:54:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd46-e7fe-7353-887e-6655ec1cc2f2", "title": "A Note on Weak and Strong Jews: Old and New Frameworks for the Schlemiel", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2020/05/04/a-note-on-weak-and-strong-jews-old-and-new-frameworks-for-the-schlemiel/", "published_at": "2020-05-04T20:08:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf35e9170e", "title": "A Schlemiel Mystic on East Broadway", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2020/05/01/a-schlemiel-mystic-on-east-broadway/", "published_at": "2020-05-01T17:33:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf35ee6eb0", "title": "Lil Dicky, or Dave: A Schlemiel-Rapper with his own Sitcom on hulu", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2020/04/29/lil-dicky-or-dave-a-schlemiel-rapper-with-his-own-sitcom-on-hulu/", "published_at": "2020-04-29T18:02:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf3624e69e", "title": "Bruce Jay Friedman – Master of the American Schlemiel – Turned 90 Yesterday", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2020/04/27/bruce-jay-friedman-master-of-the-american-schlemiel-turned-90-yesterday/", "published_at": "2020-04-27T14:48:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf36e1c1fe", "title": "A Jeu of a Book: On the Preface to John Updike’s “Bech: A Book”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/10/08/a-jeu-of-a-book-on-the-preface-to-john-updikes-bech-a-book/", "published_at": "2018-10-08T03:44:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf378019d5", "title": "Neil Simon – an American Master of Schlemiel Comedy – Passes", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/08/26/neil-simon-an-american-master-of-schlemiel-comedy-passes/", "published_at": "2018-08-26T18:21:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf379cf07f", "title": "Reading Adorno and Walter Benjamin though Don Quixote and the Schlemiel – New Publication", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/08/23/reading-adorno-and-walter-benjamin-though-don-quixote-and-the-schlemiel-new-publication/", "published_at": "2018-08-23T15:58:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf388b78d5", "title": "Notes on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who is America?”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/08/20/notes-on-sacha-baron-cohens-who-is-america/", "published_at": "2018-08-20T21:42:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf390079b0", "title": "A Schlemiel in the Park", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/08/06/a-schlemiel-in-the-park/", "published_at": "2018-08-06T14:28:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf391a2fe7", "title": "On Hollywood Schlemiel Managers: Adam Sandler’s “Sandy Wexler”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/05/06/on-hollywood-schlemiel-managers-adam-sandlers-sandy-wexler/", "published_at": "2018-05-06T16:52:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-d7b6-70af-844d-11bf391d860a", "title": "My Recent Interview on the “Left In Podcast”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/02/09/my-recent-interview-on-the-left-in-podcast/", "published_at": "2018-02-09T14:16:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e1-7133-b8de-d3a492814d87", "title": "Photography, Violence, and Comedy: Reflections on Two Photos (of Goebbels and Woody Allen)", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/02/04/photography-violence-and-comedy-reflections-on-two-photos-of-goebbels-and-woody-allen/", "published_at": "2018-02-04T22:36:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e2-729e-a566-711c5da588a9", "title": "Saving Money, Finding Smallness: On “Downsizing” (2017)", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/01/25/saving-money-finding-smallness-on-downsizing-2017/", "published_at": "2018-01-25T17:44:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e2-729e-a566-711c5e724693", "title": "Shocking Larry David: A Jew from the Bronx Can’t be Complex", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/01/23/shocking-larry-david-a-jew-from-the-bronx-cant-be-complex/", "published_at": "2018-01-23T14:38:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e2-729e-a566-711c5edc2052", "title": "In Memoriam: Aharon Appelfeld’s Schlemiel/Schlimazl Characters and the Power of Memory", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2018/01/04/in-memoriam-aharon-appelfelds-schlemiel-schlimazl-characters-and-the-power-of-memory/", "published_at": "2018-01-04T22:31:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e2-729e-a566-711c5fc4a254", "title": "Chaplin’s Fork Dance: Modernity, Disenchantment, and Re-enchatment Through Smallness", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/12/11/chaplins-fork-dance-modernity-disenchantment-and-re-enchatment-through-smallness/", "published_at": "2017-12-11T22:43:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e2-729e-a566-711c60360fe9", "title": "American Schlemiels: On Gomer Pyle and Forrest Gump", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/12/01/american-schlemiels-on-gomer-pyle-and-forrest-gump/", "published_at": "2017-12-01T18:37:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e2-729e-a566-711c60e5e9c9", "title": "Theodor Adorno’s Force Fields and Camille Paglia’s Killing Fields", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/11/13/theodor-adornos-force-fields-and-camille-paglias-killing-fields/", "published_at": "2017-11-13T05:28:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e2-729e-a566-711c61591233", "title": "Larry David, the Schlemiel, and Holocaust Humor", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/11/06/larry-david-the-schlemiel-and-holocaust-humor/", "published_at": "2017-11-06T22:04:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e2-729e-a566-711c61cfa1c6", "title": "“The Alpha-Pussy” – On Marc Maron’s Reframing of the American Schlemiel", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/10/16/the-alpha-pussy-on-marc-marons-reframing-of-the-american-schlemiel/", "published_at": "2017-10-16T16:02:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd69-d0e2-729e-a566-711c627622e1", "title": "A Priest and a Schlemiel Get on the Slowpoke Express: On Sholem Aleichem’s “The Miracle of Hoshana Rabbah”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/10/11/a-priest-and-a-schlemiel-get-on-the-slowpoke-express-on-sholem-aleichems-the-miracle-of-hoshana-rabbah-2/", "published_at": "2017-10-11T18:19:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9b-73db-99ad-e9dd1fbe1924", "title": "The Sad Fate of a Hasidic Schlemiel: On “Menashe” (2017)", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/10/08/the-sad-fate-of-a-hasidic-schlemiel-on-menashe-2017/", "published_at": "2017-10-08T17:26:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9b-73db-99ad-e9dd1fce1b62", "title": "Schlemiel Theory Wishes You A Happy New Year!", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/09/20/schlemiel-theory-wishes-you-a-happy-new-year/", "published_at": "2017-09-20T21:33:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9c-724b-9690-2d0dc59981d5", "title": "(No bliss) Can Occur in Mass Culture: On Roland Barthes and the (Dark) Schlemiel", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/09/17/no-bliss-can-occur-in-mass-culture-on-roland-barthes-and-the-dark-schlemiel/", "published_at": "2017-09-17T22:52:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9c-724b-9690-2d0dc6545a1d", "title": "Between the Emojis: Nicki Minaj’s Response to Seth Rogen", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/09/15/between-the-emojis-nicki-minajs-response-to-seth-rogen/", "published_at": "2017-09-15T20:54:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9c-724b-9690-2d0dc6cc3937", "title": "My interview with Kenneth Goldsmith for Berfrois", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/09/15/my-interview-with-kenneth-goldsmith-for-berfrois/", "published_at": "2017-09-15T16:04:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9c-724b-9690-2d0dc6f9e26d", "title": "I Made a Movie Like Seth Ro: Seth Rogen Gets Mentioned by Nicki Minaj", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/09/13/i-made-a-movie-like-seth-ro-seth-rogen-gets-mentioned-by-nicki-minaj/", "published_at": "2017-09-13T17:13:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9c-724b-9690-2d0dc78c7900", "title": "Gendered Luftmensch: Robert Walser’s Dream of Becoming Small", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/09/12/gendered-luftmensch-robert-walsers-dream-of-becoming-small/", "published_at": "2017-09-12T22:10:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9c-724b-9690-2d0dc81f913c", "title": "Out of Place: On the Schlemiel and Paul Celan’s Poem: WHERE I Forgot Myself in You", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/09/10/out-of-place-on-the-schlemiel-and-paul-celans-poem-where-i-forgot-myself-in-you/", "published_at": "2017-09-10T16:07:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9c-724b-9690-2d0dc8ead43f", "title": "“Mourning Becomes the Schlemiel” – a Guest Post by Jeffrey Bernstein", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/08/29/mourning-becomes-the-schlemiel-a-guest-post-by-jeffrey-bernstein/", "published_at": "2017-08-29T11:13:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7a-4e9c-724b-9690-2d0dc94bbc18", "title": "A New York Intellectual’s Jewish Question: Alfred Kazin’s Reflections on Jewishness and Writing", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/08/27/a-new-york-intellectuals-jewish-question-alfred-kazins-reflections-on-jewishness-and-writing/", "published_at": "2017-08-27T22:38:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbca-7211-a181-87e77a4166ca", "title": "Podcast on the Jerry Lewis film, “Sailor Beware”(1952)", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/08/21/podcast-on-the-jerry-lewis-film-sailor-beware-1952/", "published_at": "2017-08-21T19:17:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbcb-7279-943c-8fa359aa18df", "title": "The World is Messed Up and Jerry Lewis is Dead", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/08/20/the-world-is-messed-up-and-jerry-lewis-is-dead/", "published_at": "2017-08-20T23:42:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbcb-7279-943c-8fa35a440a1c", "title": "On the Baal Teshuva Schlemiel in I.B. Singer’s “The Magician of Lublin” (Part II)", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/08/18/on-the-baal-teshuva-schlemiel-in-i-b-singers-the-magician-of-lublin-part-ii/", "published_at": "2017-08-18T16:36:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbcb-7279-943c-8fa35b358a69", "title": "On Yasha and the Spiritual Journey of the Baal Teshuva Schlemiel in I.B. Singer’s “The Magician of Lublin” (Part I)", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/08/03/on-yasha-and-the-spiritual-journey-of-the-baal-teshuva-schlemiel-in-i-b-singers-the-magician-of-lublin-part-i/", "published_at": "2017-08-03T18:44:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbcb-7279-943c-8fa35b9ad5c0", "title": "The WSJ Calls Donald Trump a “Woody Allen” (Schlemiel) “Without the Humor”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/07/30/the-wsj-calls-donald-trump-a-woody-allen-schlemiel-without-the-humor/", "published_at": "2017-07-30T16:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbcb-7279-943c-8fa35bc283cf", "title": "Menachem Mendl: A Schlemiel Imagines Himself at the Zionist Congress", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/07/28/menachem-mendl-a-schlemiel-imagines-himself-at-the-zionist-congress/", "published_at": "2017-07-28T23:51:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbcb-7279-943c-8fa35c288c7f", "title": "A Lost Tribe: On “Homoschlepien” Schlemiels and a Nutty Professor in Mayim Bialik’s SodaStream Spot", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/07/13/a-lost-tribe-on-homoschlepien-schlemiels-and-a-nutty-professor-in-mayim-bialiks-sodastream-spot/", "published_at": "2017-07-13T01:14:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbcb-7279-943c-8fa35c77cc31", "title": "On Kevin Hart’s Schlemiel Tale: The “Jay-Z Pineapple Juice Story”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/07/11/on-kevin-harts-schlemiel-tale-the-jay-z-pineapple-juice-story/", "published_at": "2017-07-11T03:17:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbcb-7279-943c-8fa35d004f92", "title": "Generation Gaps: On Schlemiel Children & (Jewish) Mothers in Bruce Jay Freidman’s “A Mother’s Kisses” and Jesse Eisenberg’s “Bream Gives Me Hiccups”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/07/07/generation-gaps-on-schlemiel-children-jewish-mothers-in-bruce-jay-freidmans-a-mothers-kisses-and-jesse-eisenbergs-bream-gives-me-hiccups/", "published_at": "2017-07-07T22:22:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd88-fbcb-7279-943c-8fa35da8c808", "title": "Drifting in the Clouds: On the Schlemiel, Affect, and Pig Pen", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/06/25/drifting-in-the-clouds-on-the-schlemiel-affect-and-pig-pen/", "published_at": "2017-06-25T21:11:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032ef503d2d", "title": "Alvy Singer’s Bachelorbod and Seth Rogen’s Dadbod: American Schlemiel Embodiments", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/06/19/alvy-singers-bachelorbod-and-seth-rogens-dadbod-american-schlemiel-embodiments/", "published_at": "2017-06-19T23:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032efeeff73", "title": "The Entertainer and His Double: On Yasha’s Dual-Character in I.B. Singer’s “Magician of Lublin”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/06/16/the-entertainer-and-his-double-on-yashas-dual-character-in-i-b-singers-magician-of-lublin/", "published_at": "2017-06-16T16:27:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032f08b0ae2", "title": "Literary Notes: On the Jewish Reader in I.B. Singer’s “The Magician of Lublin”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/06/12/literary-notes-on-the-jewish-reader-in-i-b-singers-the-magician-of-lublin/", "published_at": "2017-06-12T21:27:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032f0b056d0", "title": "Philosophical & Comical Depreciations: On Roland Barthes’ Images of the Neutral", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/06/09/philosophical-comical-depreciations-on-roland-barthes-images-of-the-neutral/", "published_at": "2017-06-09T18:32:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032f0e69e6d", "title": "Imperative or Description? On Roland Barthes’ Notion of The Neutral in Minimalist Art and Ethical Minimalism", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/06/07/imperative-or-description-on-roland-barthes-notion-of-the-neutral-in-minimalist-art-and-ethical-minimalism/", "published_at": "2017-06-07T18:42:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032f1d2da6e", "title": "Chronicles of Smallness, or Becoming “Infrathin” in the Digital World", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/06/05/chronicles-of-smallness-or-becoming-infrathin-in-the-digital-world/", "published_at": "2017-06-05T16:01:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032f1f0c985", "title": "Freedom, Comedy, and the Inversion of Fate: Passing Reflections on the Schlemiel", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/06/03/freedom-comedy-and-the-inversion-of-fate-passing-reflections-on-the-schlemiel/", "published_at": "2017-06-03T00:15:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032f2319a37", "title": "A Note on Smallness, Memory & Comedy in Walter Benjamin’s “Berlin Childhood” and Stuart Ross’s “Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew”", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/05/30/a-note-on-smallness-memory-comedy-in-walter-benjamins-berlin-childhood-and-stuart-rosss-snowball-dragonfly-jew/", "published_at": "2017-05-30T22:57:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032f267eebf", "title": "Three Possibilities: On Fackenheim’s Reading of Spinoza, Emasculation & Zionism", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/05/28/three-possibilities-on-fackenheim-reading-of-spinoza-emasculation-zionism/", "published_at": "2017-05-28T16:13:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd97-84ce-718a-8651-c032f2c50e8b", "title": "On Emil Fackenheim’s Re-vision of Rosenzweig, Jewishness &the Dynamic of Contraction", "url": "https://schlemielintheory.com/2017/05/25/on-emil-fackenheims-re-vision-of-rosenzweig-jewishness-the-dynamic-of-contraction/", "published_at": "2017-05-25T21:36:51+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

The Last Picture Show? Spielberg, The Fabelmans, and the Schlemieloriginal ↗
13 Aug 2026
“It’s Funny,” No, it’s not: On Shalom Auslander’s Anxious Post-Holocaust Cynicism, or Sit-Down Comedyoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
The Last Yiddish Schlemiel: Cynthia Ozick’s “Envy; or, Yiddish in America”original ↗
10 Aug 2026
Ai and the Schlemieloriginal ↗
12 Apr 2026

2025

On the Hasidic and Kabbalistic Meaning of Laughter – by Joseph Rosenfeldoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2025

2023

Reflections on the Passing of Milan Kundera & The Magical Ring of Political Delusions: “Marching Like Fascists, Dancing Like Children”original ↗
13 Jul 2023
Al Jaffee of Mad Magazine Passes at 102 (A Note on his work, Jewishness, and the Schlemiel Character)original ↗
10 Apr 2023
Adorno on Persecution Mania, Antisemitism, and Anne Frankoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2023
Why Wasn’t Chaim Topol of “Fiddler on the Roof” Mentioned in Last Night’s Oscars?original ↗
13 Mar 2023
Chaim Topol – Who Played Tevye Fiddler on the Roof – Passes Awayoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2023
The (Schlemiel) Inspiration for Rhianna’s Half-Time Showoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2023
An Excerpt from a New Piece: “TRASHED: GARBAGE, BARBARISM + SPECTACLE IN AMERICAN CULTURE”original ↗
9 Feb 2023
Mayim Bialik on the Schlemieloriginal ↗
23 Jan 2023

2022

“Don’t Be Like Larry?” On the Schlemiel & the FTX Crypto Scamoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2022
Walter Abish, Haunted, Defamiliarized, Fascinated: A Master of Experimental Fiction Passes into the Dark Nightoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2022
On the Schlemiel & Sacha Baron Cohen’s Upcoming HBO Animated Special, “Chelm: The Smartest Place on Earth”original ↗
20 May 2022
Notes On Jean-Paul Sartre’s Reading of Jewish Inauthenticity (Self-Hatred), Self-Consciousness & the Jewish Bodyoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2022
Negative Theology as Comedy: On Shalom Auslander’s “Somebody Up There Likes You”original ↗
23 Mar 2022
Some Thoughts on the Schlemiel’s (Political) Body and Benjamin Balthaser’s Recent Essay: “From Schlemiel to Super Hero: Volodmir Zelensky and the Price of Western Inclusion”original ↗
21 Mar 2022
A Prelude to Purim, On the Schlemiel & Humor – Guest Spot on Live Kabbalah’s Podcast –original ↗
16 Mar 2022

2021

The Tam (Simpleton) Figure at the Budapest Jewish Museumoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2021
On My Schlemiel Seminar in Budapest: History, Irony & the Survival of the Schlemieloriginal ↗
19 Dec 2021
Is Seth Rogen going JuBu Before Rosh Hashanah?original ↗
3 Sept 2021
Walter Benjamin, Smiling?original ↗
1 Sept 2021
Wit, Jewishness, Alchemy: Joshua Cohen & Jean-Luc Nancy on “the Witz” (Part I)original ↗
30 Aug 2021
The End of (a) Generation: A Brief Note on Jean-Luc Nancy’s Passingoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2021
Not Mom, Not Dad: A Schlemiel’s Reflection on his Parentsoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2021
Who is the Master? Who is the Slave? The Schlemiel as Masochist in Italo Svevo’s “Confessions of Zeno”original ↗
19 Aug 2021
Comical Addictions: Schlemiels and Cigarettes in Italo Svevo’s “Confessions of Zeno”original ↗
17 Aug 2021
Sketches of Schlemiel-Consciousness: On Italo Svevo’s “Confessions of Zeno”original ↗
8 Aug 2021
Alfred Kazin: a Jew, an American, and a NYC Walkeroriginal ↗
1 Aug 2021
Schlemiel Apps: Costanza’s iToilet App & Eli Batalion’s “Appiness” (2019)original ↗
14 Apr 2021
A Brief Note on Schlemiel Pictures and their Debut Film,”The End of Us”original ↗
18 Mar 2021
Irish Jews: Between Joyce’s Dublin and Immigrant Americaoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2021
Happy Birthday to Jerry Lewis, a Legendary American Schlemieloriginal ↗
16 Mar 2021
Not Jewish American Comedy, Or Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman are doing something else with their timeoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2021
On Seth Rogen’s Tweeted Response to My and (The) Essential Schlemiel Questionoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2021

2020

Walser and Kafka’s Literary Dogsoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2020
Morning, Night…Smallness Again: Robert Walser’s Tzimtzum Reflectionoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2020
Happy Birthday to a Schlemiel Who Just Happens to Come from New Yorkoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2020
Consciousness of the Endless Loss of Small Things: Elias Canetti’s Portrait of the Happy Loseroriginal ↗
29 Nov 2020
Paul Celan @ 100yrs – Schlemiels & Microtextsoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2020
Menashe Skulnik – The “Pure Schlemiel” of Yiddish Americaoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2020
Schlemiels, Gentle Revolutionaries (In Memory of Bruce Jay Friedman)original ↗
5 Jun 2020
Holy Fools and Merrymakers – In Memorium of Meir Abehsera zt’loriginal ↗
31 May 2020
In Memory of Jerry Stiller for theJ.caoriginal ↗
24 May 2020
Strong Mothers, Weak Fathers & Schlemiel Children: Then and Noworiginal ↗
10 May 2020
A Shtreimel in the Mud: The Schlemiel, the Mensch & Freud’s Male Fantasiesoriginal ↗
7 May 2020
Kierkegaard’s “Happy” Birthday: “Repetition’s Love is the Only Happy Love”original ↗
5 May 2020
A Note on Weak and Strong Jews: Old and New Frameworks for the Schlemieloriginal ↗
4 May 2020
A Schlemiel Mystic on East Broadwayoriginal ↗
1 May 2020
Lil Dicky, or Dave: A Schlemiel-Rapper with his own Sitcom on huluoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2020
Bruce Jay Friedman – Master of the American Schlemiel – Turned 90 Yesterdayoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2020

2018

A Jeu of a Book: On the Preface to John Updike’s “Bech: A Book”original ↗
8 Oct 2018
Neil Simon – an American Master of Schlemiel Comedy – Passesoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2018
Reading Adorno and Walter Benjamin though Don Quixote and the Schlemiel – New Publicationoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2018
Notes on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who is America?”original ↗
20 Aug 2018
A Schlemiel in the Parkoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2018
On Hollywood Schlemiel Managers: Adam Sandler’s “Sandy Wexler”original ↗
6 May 2018
My Recent Interview on the “Left In Podcast”original ↗
9 Feb 2018
Photography, Violence, and Comedy: Reflections on Two Photos (of Goebbels and Woody Allen)original ↗
4 Feb 2018
Saving Money, Finding Smallness: On “Downsizing” (2017)original ↗
25 Jan 2018
Shocking Larry David: A Jew from the Bronx Can’t be Complexoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2018
In Memoriam: Aharon Appelfeld’s Schlemiel/Schlimazl Characters and the Power of Memoryoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2018

2017

Chaplin’s Fork Dance: Modernity, Disenchantment, and Re-enchatment Through Smallnessoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2017
American Schlemiels: On Gomer Pyle and Forrest Gumporiginal ↗
1 Dec 2017
Theodor Adorno’s Force Fields and Camille Paglia’s Killing Fieldsoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2017
Larry David, the Schlemiel, and Holocaust Humororiginal ↗
6 Nov 2017
“The Alpha-Pussy” – On Marc Maron’s Reframing of the American Schlemieloriginal ↗
16 Oct 2017
A Priest and a Schlemiel Get on the Slowpoke Express: On Sholem Aleichem’s “The Miracle of Hoshana Rabbah”original ↗
11 Oct 2017
The Sad Fate of a Hasidic Schlemiel: On “Menashe” (2017)original ↗
8 Oct 2017
Schlemiel Theory Wishes You A Happy New Year!original ↗
20 Sept 2017
(No bliss) Can Occur in Mass Culture: On Roland Barthes and the (Dark) Schlemieloriginal ↗
17 Sept 2017
Between the Emojis: Nicki Minaj’s Response to Seth Rogenoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2017
My interview with Kenneth Goldsmith for Berfroisoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2017
I Made a Movie Like Seth Ro: Seth Rogen Gets Mentioned by Nicki Minajoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2017
Gendered Luftmensch: Robert Walser’s Dream of Becoming Smalloriginal ↗
12 Sept 2017
Out of Place: On the Schlemiel and Paul Celan’s Poem: WHERE I Forgot Myself in Youoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2017
“Mourning Becomes the Schlemiel” – a Guest Post by Jeffrey Bernsteinoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2017
A New York Intellectual’s Jewish Question: Alfred Kazin’s Reflections on Jewishness and Writingoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2017
Podcast on the Jerry Lewis film, “Sailor Beware”(1952)original ↗
21 Aug 2017
The World is Messed Up and Jerry Lewis is Deadoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2017
On the Baal Teshuva Schlemiel in I.B. Singer’s “The Magician of Lublin” (Part II)original ↗
18 Aug 2017
On Yasha and the Spiritual Journey of the Baal Teshuva Schlemiel in I.B. Singer’s “The Magician of Lublin” (Part I)original ↗
3 Aug 2017
The WSJ Calls Donald Trump a “Woody Allen” (Schlemiel) “Without the Humor”original ↗
30 Jul 2017
Menachem Mendl: A Schlemiel Imagines Himself at the Zionist Congressoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2017
A Lost Tribe: On “Homoschlepien” Schlemiels and a Nutty Professor in Mayim Bialik’s SodaStream Spotoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2017
On Kevin Hart’s Schlemiel Tale: The “Jay-Z Pineapple Juice Story”original ↗
11 Jul 2017
Generation Gaps: On Schlemiel Children & (Jewish) Mothers in Bruce Jay Freidman’s “A Mother’s Kisses” and Jesse Eisenberg’s “Bream Gives Me Hiccups”original ↗
7 Jul 2017
Drifting in the Clouds: On the Schlemiel, Affect, and Pig Penoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2017
Alvy Singer’s Bachelorbod and Seth Rogen’s Dadbod: American Schlemiel Embodimentsoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2017
The Entertainer and His Double: On Yasha’s Dual-Character in I.B. Singer’s “Magician of Lublin”original ↗
16 Jun 2017
Literary Notes: On the Jewish Reader in I.B. Singer’s “The Magician of Lublin”original ↗
12 Jun 2017
Philosophical & Comical Depreciations: On Roland Barthes’ Images of the Neutraloriginal ↗
9 Jun 2017
Imperative or Description? On Roland Barthes’ Notion of The Neutral in Minimalist Art and Ethical Minimalismoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2017
Chronicles of Smallness, or Becoming “Infrathin” in the Digital Worldoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2017
Freedom, Comedy, and the Inversion of Fate: Passing Reflections on the Schlemieloriginal ↗
3 Jun 2017
A Note on Smallness, Memory & Comedy in Walter Benjamin’s “Berlin Childhood” and Stuart Ross’s “Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew”original ↗
30 May 2017
Three Possibilities: On Fackenheim’s Reading of Spinoza, Emasculation & Zionismoriginal ↗
28 May 2017
On Emil Fackenheim’s Re-vision of Rosenzweig, Jewishness &the Dynamic of Contractionoriginal ↗
25 May 2017