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The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies [Paperback]

Joshua Neuman (Author), David Deutsch (Author)
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March 31, 2005
What if anything they ever said about Jews was true? Postmodern satire that hilariously addresses Jewish badness through the ages, from the editors of the magazine The New York Times calls the epicenter of "all things hipster-Jewish and ironic"
The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies takes as its modest proposal an extreme theme: what if the most damaging charges ever leveled against Jews were all true? Spanning the history of Western Civilization, each of these assertions is explored in turn, including:
--Ancient Jewish Conspiracies: How Moses led the Exodus so Jews would later have a justification for establishing the state of Israel
--Medieval Jewish Conspiracies: How Blood Libel began after an unfortunate baking accident resulted in the tastiest Matzoh ever
--Jewish Conspiracies during the Enlightenment: Upset by lack of opportunity for Jews in Bourbon France, entrepreneurs turn culottes into an unaffordable craze, leaving the sans-culottes thirsty for revolution
--Modern Jewish Conspiracies: The invention of psychoanalysis as a way to hypnotize wealthy and powerful Gentiles
--Post-Modern Conspiracies: Jews invent fast food to turn buff, sports-playing Gentiles into doughy copies of the average Jewish accountant's physique
And that's not all!**Why the Jews invented and still run Hollywood**World War II as a brilliant coup that got Jews accepted into mainstream American society**How circumcision became a widespread "health procedure**Why the Jews were behind 9/11
"You know what they say: two Jews, three conspiracies."
-author Joshua Neuman


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“A fusion of Mel Brooks’s sardonic blasphemy with the tastes of left-of-center Jewish hipsters.” --Time Out Chicago
“The authors, knowledgeable, witty and pop-culturally savvy, employ every comic device to laugh at those who believe such numbskullery.”—Jewsweek

About the Author

JOSHUA NEUMAN is the editor and publisher of Heeb: The New Jew Review. He is also an adjunct philosophy professor at New York University, and a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School. He lives in New York.
David Deutsch is the humor editor of Heeb. He lives in New York.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (March 31, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312334397
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312334390
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,579,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stranger than Truth..., November 28, 2005
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As a non-Jew with Jewish friends, I found it highly entertaining, but it does seem to have annoyed a few people.

To me, the whole Jewish Conspiracy issue comes down to one question...

If the Jews run the World and always have, how come Israel is the Whipping Boy of the United Nations?
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies, July 1, 2005
This review is from: The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies (Paperback)
I haven't laughed so loud and so frequently reading anything in a long time as I did with every chapter of this book.There is much to be said for the protective, mind cleaning effects of extreme satire, and to say the least, I think that any Jew who is genuinely concerned about the current new thrust of anti-semitism or gratuitous Israel bashing will find a therapeutic, hilarious haven in the telling of these "Conspiracies".Exposing the ludicrousness of the many age old and contemporary canards against Jews in this riotous, carnivalesque, off-the-wall romp is quite a feat, even if occasionally the footnotes may be excessive or some items not in the best of taste ( I would have otherwise given the book five stars).Highly recommended for anyone in need of lots of laughs, Jewish or not,the seriousness of the actual subject notwhistanding.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Neuman and Deutch hit a proverbial home run!, October 10, 2005
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"The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies" is hip, erudite, edgy, and, above all, hysterically funny. From "The Book of Profits" to "Let My People Go . . . On Longer Lunch Breaks" to "There's No Business like Shoah Business," Neuman and Deutsch use their keen knowledge of human history and human nature to puncture every myth promulgated by anti-Semitism throughout the ages.

And oy, those footnotes!!
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