第二次世界大战以后,美国出现了一个庞大的犹太作家群,他们在创作中有一种共同的风格,就是犹太幽默。按照犹太人的宗教信仰,犹太人是“上帝的选民”,肩负着传达上帝旨意的神圣使命。然而在现实生活中,多少个世纪以来犹太人却过着没有祖国、到处流浪、遭人歧视的生活。为了求得生存、种族延绵,长期以来犹太人只好克制自己的欲望,寄希望于冥冥世界。这种矛盾心理和自我遏制,产生了一种自我嘲解式的风格——犹太幽默。犹太幽默最主要的特点,表现在文学作品中塑造的“施勒密尔”(schlemiel)形象上。“施勒密尔”一词来源于犹太人使用的意第绪 After the Second World War, the United States there was a huge Jewish writers group, they have a common style of creation is Jewish humor. According to Jewish religion, Jews are “God’s elect” and bear the sacred mission of conveying the will of God. However, in real life, for centuries, Jews lived a life of no homeland, wandering and being discriminated against. In order to survive, race, stretches, Jews have long been restrained their desire, pinning hopes on the world. This ambivalence and self-containment created a self-deprecating style of Jewish humor. The most important feature of Jewish humor is manifested in the image of Schlemiel in the literary genre. The term “Schiller” derives from the meaning of the first passage used by Jews