Shmendrik

• Shmendrik, oder di komishe Chaseneh, original usage • Shmendrick is a "wise Man of Chelm" in the 1999 Canadian animated comedy Village of Idiots • Schmendrick the Magician, wizard from the fantasy novel The Last Unicorn, which was made into an animated film and had a sequel, Two Hearts. The author, Peter S. Beagle, said he took the name from the Yiddish term, which he described as "somebody out of his depth, the boy sent to do a man's job, someone who has expanded to the limits of his incapacity". • Shosshi Schmendrik is a socially awkward, shy carpenter in the 1899 play Children of the Ghetto ==See also==