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Oy!: The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes

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I was riding into San Francisco on BART reading OY! The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes and just burst out laughing. The woman next me looked at me strangely and seemed to edge away, so I smiled and explained I was reading the new joke book by David Minkoff. I read her the story that made me laugh (it was one of the naughtier ones so I wo'nt repeat it here) and she started laughing too. We read the book together and laughed all the way into the city. We got along so well that we went to Masa's for dinner together and later she agreed to come home with me. Of course the woman was my wife, so if you thought this book was a dating aid, I can't help you, but if you want the Ultimate in laughs, smiles, and belly laughs, buy this book.

With more than 400 pages, there's plenty of material here to keep you laughing, and to let you entertain (and annoy) your friends for hours. My only quibble with the book is that about half the jokes aren't really Jewish jokes at all, but just ordinary jokes (some of them pretty old) dressed up with Jewish characters (and names, etc.). It does include my second-favorite joke ("He had a hat!"), but doesn't include my favorite Jewish joke: Fed up with public schools, a Jewish man sends his son to Catholic school; the kid comes home the first day and the father asks what he learned. "Well, dad, I learned that there are three gods, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost". The father replies: "No, no, no! That's not right! There's only one God! And we don't believe in him."

Received one as a present and ordered another one to give out (and we are about to order yet another one for someone else).

A wonderful book filled with stories and jokes about the plight of Jewish people that is designed to make the reader laugh. The incidents make light of the events that happen to people in such a way as to make the reader feel connected to the story teller. A truly entertaining book.