Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Collins, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Novak, William.
• Waldoks, Moshe.

Description

li, 308 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Subject

• Jewish wit and humor

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.

ISBN

• 0061138134 (pbk.)
• 9780061138133 (pbk.)

LCCN

2007272151

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library