Leopold Bloom is a fictional character in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. He is a Jewish advertising agent introduced to us at the very beginning of episode 4 (Calypso) of the novel, with the following words: A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... The first edition of Ulysses was published in 1922. ... // The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי transliterated: Yehudi) is used in many ways, but generally refers to a follower of Judaism, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ... In Greek mythology Kalypsō (Greek: Καλυψώ, I will conceal), or Calypso, was a sea nymph, daughter of Atlas, who delayed Odysseus on her dark and depressing island (Ogygia) for seven years. ...

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

Ulysses is primarily focused on Bloom and the contemporary Odyssey he embarks upon throughout Dublin over the course of the single day of June 16, 1904 (though episodes 1 to 3, as well as 9 and to a lesser extent 7, are more concerned with Stephen Dedalus, who in the plan of the book represents Telemachus to Bloom's Odysseus), the various types of people and themes he encounters. Among Joyce aficionados, June 16th is celebrated as Bloomsday. The first edition of Ulysses was published in 1922. ... Odysseus and Nausicaä - by Charles Gleyre The Odyssey (Greek Οδύσσεια) is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first of which is the Iliad. ... Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. ... Stephen Daedalus was James Joyces early pen name, and the name of the main character in his early novel Stephen Hero. ... Telemachus and Mentor Telemachus departing from Nestor, painting by Henry Howard (1769–1847) Telemachus (also transliterated as Telemachos or Telémakhos; literally, far-away fighter) is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope. ... Odysseus and the Sirens. ... Bloomsday is a secular holiday, celebrated annually on June 16. ...

Throughout the novel Bloom is aware of an affair his wife Molly Bloom is having with her manager Blazes Boylan, and broods about the death of his child, Rudy. We also encounter his chauvinistic attitudes, a penchant for voyeurism and his unfaithful epistolary alter ego, Henry Flower. Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. ... Voyeurism is a practice in which the individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people. ... Alter Ego has multiple meanings: Alter Ego is a game for the Commodore 64 computer. ...

Writer-director Mel Brooks adopted the name "Leo Bloom" for the mousy accountant played by Gene Wilder in his 1968 film The Producers, and "Leopold Bloom" for his own remake of the same film in 2005. Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is a Jewish-American actor, writer director, and theatrical producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and parodies. ... Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American actor, who has starred in more than thirty movies. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The Producers is a 1968 feature length comedy film set in New York City in which two con-men attempt to cheat theatre angels (investors) out of their investment money. ...