The big book of Jewish humor / edited and annotated by William Novak, Moshe Waldoks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Novak, William.

Waldoks, Moshe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish wit and humor.

Physical Description:

li, 308 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

25th anniversary ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Collins, ©2006.

Contents:

On account of a hat / Sholom Aleichem

The meaning of life / Stanley Elkin

Jewish poker / Ephraim Kishon

Shabbas nachamu / Isaac Babel

Letters to Einstein / Philip Roth

The whore of mensa / Woody Allen

The Babylonian Talmud / Eliezer ben Tam

Jewish and goyish / Lenny Bruce

The jewbird / Bernard Malamud

The purple gang / Max Apple

The dance of Genghis cohn / Romain Gary

Floods give us pleasure / Wallace Marhfield

Shikses and other goyim / Philip Roth

Antenna on the roof / Frank Jacobs

The man who exploded / Elliot E. Cohen

Doonesbury / G.B. Trudeau

A Montrealer seder / Elan Dresher, Norbert Hornstein, and J. Lipa Roth

Let us now claim famous men / Ralph Schoenstein

The lecture / Abraham Shulman

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jewish humanitarian / Gerald Sussman

Screw the Jews / Paul Jacobs

Mel Brooks is God / Gerald Sussman

Tales of the American masters / Gary Epstein

There's more ways than one to kill a joke / Dan Ben-Amotz

Tel Aviv & Jerusalem / Yoram Matmor

Covering the Yom Kippur war / Chaim Bermant

The Jerusalem roast / Gary Rosenblatt

Mark Twain and Sholom Aleichem / Edward Field

Ferry tale from Romplesealskin for Nize baby wot ate opp all de crembarry suss / Milt Gross

Mr. Kaplans white banner / Leo Rosten

Dr. Klockenmeyer / Neil Simon

Groucho and Chico make a deal / George S. Kaufman, and Morrie Ryskind

Waiting for Santy / S.J Perelman

The Schnorrer's apprentice / Israel Zangwill

Bargaining / Sam Levenson

Thoughts about forty cents / Moishe Nadir

Rabbis / Max Shulman

Hasidic tales, with a guide to their interpretation by the noted scholar / Woody Allen

What kind of Rabbi we have / Sholom Aleichem

God talk / Lenny Bruce

The sacrifice of Isaac / Woody Allen

The deluge / Jules Feiffer

The twenty commandments / Shel Silverstein

Happy bar mitzvah, Bernie / Mordecai Richler

The queen of Sheba / Isaac Rosenfeld

Transitory love / Stanley Elkin

Rosh Hashanah interruptus / Bruce Jay Friedman

Family Reunion / Judith Viorst

How to be a Jewish mother / Dan Greenburg

My mother / Robert Mezey

My mother / Philip Roth

Mama goes shopping / Sam Levenson

Truman and the uncles / Joel Rosenberg

A visit from my mother-in-law / Judith Viorst

Gold's stepmother / Joseph Heller

Did I order a kosher meal / Saul Bellow

The little martian / Seymour Chwast

The koshef laws / Philip Roth

Jewish waiter joke / Robert Grossman

Bontsha the silent / I.L. Peretz

Death on second avenue / Allan Sherman.

Other Format:

Online version: Big book of Jewish humor.

ISBN:

0061138134

9780061138133

OCLC:

74818356

Publisher Number:

99994777744