Big Book of Jewish Humor

, by Novak, William

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ISBN: 9780060909178 | 006090917X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/4/1981

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Summary

A collection of Jewish humor from every source imaginable: literature, jokes, children's books, magazines, comics, newspapers and others, from Woody Allen to Israel Zangwill.

Introduction

xiii

William Novak

Moshe Waldoks

PART ONE DEEPER MEANINGS

On Account of a Hat

(7)

Sholom Aleichem

The Meaning of Life

(3)

Stanley Elkin

Jewish Poker

(10)

Ephraim Kishon

Shabbas Nachamu

(6)

Isaac Babel

Letters to Einstein

(7)

Philip Roth

The Whore of Mensa

(10)

Woody Allen

The Babylonian Talmud

(9)

Eliezer ben Tam

PART TWO JEWISH & GOYISH

Jewish and Goyish

(2)

Lenny Bruce

The Jewbird

(9)

Bernard Malamud

The Purple Gang

(2)

Max Apple

The Dance of Genghis Cohn

(19)

Romain Gary

Floods Give Us Pleasure

(5)

Wallace Markfield

Shikses and Other Goyim

(7)

Philip Roth

PART THREE PROMISED LANDS

Antenna on the Roof

104

(7)

Mort Drucker

Frank Jacobs

The Man Who Exploded

111

(2)

``An Elder of Zion''

Elliot E. Cohen

Doonesbury

113

(1)

G. B. Trudeau

A Montrealer Seder

114

(3)

Elan Dresher

Norbert Hornstein

J. Lipa Roth

Let Us Now Claim Famous Men

117

(4)

Ralph Schoenstein

The Lecture

121

(1)

Abraham Shulman

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jewish Humanitarian

122

(2)

Gerald Sussman

``Screw the Jews''

124

(4)

Paul Jacobs

Mel Brooks Is God

128

(2)

Gerald Sussman

Tales of the American Masters

130

(3)

Gary Epstein

There's More Ways Than One to Kill a Joke

133

(5)

Dan Ben-Amotz

Tel Aviv & Jerusalem

138

(1)

Yoram Matmor

Covering the Yom Kippur War

138

(5)

Chaim Bermant

The Jerusalem Roast

143

(1)

Gary Rosenblatt

Mark Twain and Sholom Aleichem

144

(4)

Edward Field

Ferry Tale from Romplesealskin for Nize Baby Wot Ate Opp All de Crembarry Suss

148

(6)

Milt Gross

Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N's White Banner

154

(9)

Leo Rosten

Dr. Klockenmeyer

163

(9)

Neil Simon

PART FOUR MAKING A LIVING

Groucho and Chico Make a Deal

172

(4)

George S. Kaufman

Morrie Ryskind

Waiting for Santy

176

(5)

S. J. Perelman

The Schnorrer's Apprentice

181

(9)

Israel Zangwill

Bargaining

190

(1)

Sam Levenson

Thoughts About Forty Cents

191

(5)

Moishe Nadir

Rabbis

196

(4)

Max Shulman

Hasidic Tales, with a Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar

200

(2)

Woody Allen

What Kind of Rabbi We Have

202

(12)

Sholom Aleichem

PART FIVE FIRST THINGS LAST

God Talk

214

(6)

Lenny Bruce

The Sacrifice of Isaac

220

(1)

Woody Allen

The Deluge

221

(5)

Jules Feiffer

The Twenty Commandments

226

(10)

Shel Silverstein

Happy Bar Mitzvah, Bernie!

236

(10)

Mordecai Richler

The Queen of Sheba

246

(8)

Isaac Rosenfeld

Transitory Love

254

(4)

Stanley Elkin

Rosh Hashanah Interruptus

258

(9)

Bruce Jay Friedman

Family Reunion

267

(1)

Judith Viorst

How to Be a Jewish Mother

268

(3)

Dan Greenburg

My Mother

271

(1)

Robert Mezey

My Mother

272

(2)

Philip Roth

Mama Goes Shopping

274

(2)

Sam Levenson

Truman and the Uncles

276

(2)

Joel Rosenberg

A Visit from My Mother-in-Law

278

(1)

Judith Viorst

Gold's Stepmother

279

(3)

Joseph Heller

Did I Order a Kosher Meal?

282

(4)

Saul Bellow

The Little Martian

286

(1)

Seymour Chwast

The Kosher Laws

287

(4)

Philip Roth

Jewish Waiter Joke

291

(2)

Robert Grossman

Bontsha the Silent

293

(9)

I. L. Peretz

Death on Second Avenue

302

Allan Sherman

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