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.
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This book came out a while ago yet it remains the best collection available. The various Jewish joke and humor anthologies published recently don't even come close and some are quite shoddy. This definitive, well-illustrated and definitely very "big" volume covers all types of humor from literary to stand-up to historical and more, with jokes, literary excerpts, yiddish curses, and representative selections from famous humorists and comedians as well as from obscure ones. You will find all your favorites here and you will discover some new favorites too. Perhaps the time has come for these authors to do a sequel? No one since them seems to be up to the task.
Addendum: I posted the paragraph above a decade ago for the original edition of this book. There's a new 25th Anniversary edition now. While the humor is just as good as before, I must say that this new edition is possibly a missed opportunity. There has been quite a lot of excellent new Jewish humor in the past 25 years, some of it worthy of inclusion here, but the editors have chosen just to reprint the old edition with a different colored cover and an updated preface. Maybe they didn't want to tinker with a classic, but it may be time for a "New" Big Book of Jewish humor that acknowledges new humorists and new targets for satire.
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The Big Book of Jewish Humor is a great collection of articles, one-liners, and cartoons. It's the kind of book you can pick up anywhere and start reading, the perfect book to leaf through when you've only got a few minutes and need a quick laugh. The book contains selections from authors you'd expect, such as Woody Allen and Sholom Aleichem, as well as contributions from Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud. Many of the classics are here, such as Lenny Bruce's comparison of Jews and non-Jews and the Sanity Clause routine between Groucho and Chico written by Kaufman and Ryskind, but there also are many gems you may never have read before.
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What a classic!,
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The Big Book of Jewish Humor is a must-own for Jews of all races, creeds and... well, OK, just for Jews. Anyway, it's loaded with so many brilliant pieces -- from one-liners to standard jokes to essays -- and covers such a wide body of work and of historical subjects, that finding a flaw ain't easy. If I have any complaint (and who among us doesn't?), it's that this book is so thick with outstanding humor, I don't think I've ever read half of its works.By the way, it's a good gift for goyim, as well. If you don't have it yet, get it soon!
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A classic. Minsk and Pinsk, which appear in many jokes because of the sound of their names, were important commercial centers and Jewish communities in White Russia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sholem Shachnah, New York, Dick Codor, Yom Kippur, Woody Allen, Great Apikoros, David Levine, Philip Roth, Purple Gang, Bontsha the Silent, John Caldwell, Miss Mitnick, Rabbi Goldstone, Shabbas Nachamu, Tel Aviv, Mark Podwal, Ralph Steadman, Reb Yonah, Mark Twain, National Lampoon, Queen of Sheba, Writer's Digest Books, Air Force, Dinah Shore, Rabbi Boruchl New!
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A classic. Minsk and Pinsk, which appear in many jokes because of the sound of their names, were important commercial centers and Jewish communities in White Russia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ish humor, defending angel, sholom aleichem Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sholem Shachnah, New York, Dick Codor, Yom Kippur, Woody Allen, Great Apikoros, David Levine, Philip Roth, Purple Gang, Bontsha the Silent, John Caldwell, Miss Mitnick, Rabbi Goldstone, Shabbas Nachamu, Tel Aviv, Mark Podwal, Ralph Steadman, Reb Yonah, Mark Twain, National Lampoon, Queen of Sheba, Writer's Digest Books, Air Force, Dinah Shore, Rabbi Boruchl New!
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- Annie Hall by Woody Allen on page 85, page 200, and page 219
- Jewish Wit by T. Reik in Front Matter, page 50, and page 81
- Sigmund Freud by Ralph Steadman on page 49, page 50, and page 245
- To Jerusalem and Back (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Saul Bellow on page 282, and Back Matter
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler on page 236, and Back Matter
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- Jewish-American Folklore (American Folklore Series) by Josepha Sherman on 7 pages
- Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling by Steve Zeitlin on 5 pages
- Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America by James D. Bloom on 5 pages
- Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews by Joseph Telushkin on 4 pages
- Semites and Stereotypes: Characteristics of Jewish Humor (Contributions in Ethnic Studies) by Avner Ziv on page 45, page 85, and page 98
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