Words of Yiddish origin include bagel, lox, blintze, nosh, kosher, kibitz, klutz, tush, schlemiel, spiel and schlep.

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Father was the town schlemiel, you know, almost everyplace.

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The movie, set in a Minneapolis suburb in 1967, is a deadpan farce about middle-class bad taste (Jewish division), with a schlemiel Job as its hero Professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physicist at a local university whose life is falling apart.

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