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What is a Zelig?

What is a Zelig? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An ordinary person who can change his appearance or behaviour to suit his surroundings, especially one who is unexpectedly associated with important people or events.
  2. An unimportant person who appears at multiple important events.
Name
  1. A male given name of Jewish origin.
    1. (meaning, history) Blessed fortunate.
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These singers, like Woody Allen's fictional character Zelig, seem to be ever present.
The third, Zelig Hirsh Kalmanovitch, was another Yiddishist scholar and activist who worked as an administrator at the Yiddish Scientific Institute.
Some of you may remember the old film Zelig, about a character who just happened to be everywhere anything important was happening, anywhere in the world.
Before we get pistols and learn to use them well be asleep under a quilt of earth, said Zelig.
Franco himself is the Zelig of the literary world these days.
With them the cantor signed a contract by which Zelig was bound to him as a kind of musical apprentice for three years.

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