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When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw (Yiddish: ווען שלימואל איז געגאנגען קיין ווארשע) is a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer from his cycle about the Fools of Chełm. The 1968 book When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories was the 1969 Newbery Medal winner.[1]
Plot
On a journey from Chelm to Warsaw Shlemiel decides to take a nap by the roadside. To know where to go when he wakes up, he pints the boots in the direction of Warsaw. A pranker turns the boots in the opposite direction, and when Shlemiel is up and on the go, he arrives to a town with striking similarities to his own hometown of Chelm, together with his home, wife (whose husband's name is Shlemiel), and children. But of course it cannot be his Chelm, but rather the second Chelm. When he is doing to proceed with his juorney, the city elders persuade him to stay until the "other" Shlemiel returns, to take care of the "other" family. Clearly, the other Shlemiel never returns...[2]
Adaptations
Singer combined this story with others from his Chelm cycle into the play Shlemiel the First, which was adapted into a musical with the same title by Robert Brustein in 1994 (before that he produced the original Singer's play in 1974[3]). [2][4]
The Real Shlemiel is a European-Israeli animated film loosely based on this and other Singer's stories.
References
- ^ Newbery Medal and Honor Books # 60s
- ^ a b Noah Millman, All The World Is One Big Chelm, The American Conservative, January 5, 2012
- ^ Alvin Klein Shlemiel' Continues A Path to Broadway", The New York Times, April 9, 1995
- ^ p. 123