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Mother's Boy - with Howard Jacobson

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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The Importance of Being Jewish

The Schlamiel is a wonderful wonderful character the greatest the greatest Jewish character in literature I think is Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses some wonderful wonderful creation. The world has changed did not know what blotting paper was maybe you are too young to have encountered anything because you've never had wet ink blotting paper with which we live today. We're all got a bit bored with the Woody Allen stick of the Schlamiel and  I'm aware of that and I've over schlamield it in my books and I'veOver schlam yield it in life but I like it the trouble is I really like it.

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