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| 1. |  | The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale from Pantheon Price: $23.10 Customer Review:  The Holocaust hangs over western society in the second half of the twentieth century. One man said that poetry was impossible after Auschwitz, but great artists in numerous mediums have dedicated themselves ot proving this wrong. The great crime has provided a great canvas for stories of humanity in... |
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| 2. |  | Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Price: $11.16 Customer Review:  This is a great book; I was expecting just a fairly usual compendium of Yiddishisms, but Wex has shown how language is related to the philosophy behind the language, and how Yiddish is a window on the worldview of the Jews in their period of exile. But not as a dry academic treatise; at times I was,... |
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| 3. |  | How to Raise a Jewish Dog from Little, Brown and Company Price: $10.39 Customer Review: Very dry humor, but right on point. I recommend it to psychologists to help understand jewish guilt. |
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| 4. |  | Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir from Riverhead Hardcover Price: $16.47 Customer Review: you know those moments in life that are frustratingly awful but then you can laugh when you look back on them? This is Foreskins Lament. Auslander has the ability to look back and see the humour and how great to share it with us. The curcumcision Dillema is at the beginging and end of this... |
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| 5. |  | The Jewish War: Revised Edition (The Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $10.88 Customer Review: Anyone interested in the history of Israel around the time of Jesus will be fascinated by this chronicle of events unbiased by Christian beliefs or Jewish influence. |
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| 6. |  | The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated from Three Rivers Press Price: $13.57 Customer Review: thils is an updated version of leo rosten's original book. it appears a bit overdone in its scholarly definitions. i purchased the book as a gift for someone who was interested in learning something about yiddish. |
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| 7. |  | Jokes Every Man Should Know from Quirk Books Price: $9.95 | |
| 8. |  | Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government--A Memoir from Free Press Price: $16.32 Customer Review:  The author, probably because of his youth, shows consistently a superior and patronizing attitude. Probably due to his "outsider" point of view, he generalizes and presents negative stereotypes from just a few personal unpleasant incidents. If you read it for laughs or to gain some... |
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| 9. |  | Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews from Harper Paperbacks Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews I am usually very hard to make laugh. But the humor in this book had me laughing out loud quite often. Also good description of the psychology behind this humor. |
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| 10. |  | Have You No Shame?: And Other Regrettable Stories from Villard Price: $11.20 Customer Review: If you are Jewish, from Generation X, or fulfill both of these criteria, you will find this book quite charming. Shukert's writing is witty, irreverant, and full of wry humor. The book explores some of the finer moments of growing up Jewish in small town America. I'm recommending this book to all of... |
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| 11. |  | Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Music May Have Stopped, but the Party's Never Over from Crown Price: $16.29 Customer Review: This book is so much fun. Beyond the great photos that are too campy to be believed, this book is jammed with the reflections of others on their mitzvah experiences. No poignancy here, just a lot of laughs. |
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| 12. |  | Jewtopia: The Chosen Book for the Chosen People from Grand Central Publishing Price: $16.49 Customer Review: This book is funny. Really, really funny. But, there's something else to Jewtopia, and that is that it puts you in touch with your Judaism. Yes, you're going to laugh out loud over and over, but you're also going to feel proud to be a Jew, you're going to feel righteous anger at the bigotry we've... |
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| 13. |  | Yiddish for Dogs: Chutzpah, Feh!, Kibbitz, and More: Every Word Your Canine Needs to Know from Hyperion Price: $11.96 Customer Review: Being the YENTA that I apparently am, I must spread the word about this MISHUGGEH of a MATZIAH to the whole MISHPOCHA out there! What a METZIAH! Be a MENSCH and buy one, yourself. Not to make a big MEGILLAH, but any MAVEN would KVELL over such a gift. Only a GONIFF wouldn't buy it! Don't get all... |
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| 14. |  | Oy!: The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes from St. Martin's Griffin Price: $10.17 Customer Review: 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... |
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| 15. |  | Shlepping the Exile from Mosaic Press Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Shlepping the Exile is a most unusual coming of age novels, and here Wex shows the same virtuosity at weaving incongruous elements into one fabric as he did in Born To Kvetch. Shlepping is written with near manic intensity, but the foundation of Wex's ideas are solid, and the even when he goes off... |
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| 16. |  | Haikus for Jews: For You, a Little Wisdom from Harmony Price: $9.56 Customer Review:  Very simply, there are no haiku in this book. A shame that this book like so many others have authors thinking that they are actually writing haiku. Haiku is a classic form of poetry and these verses are haiku imposters. |
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| 17. |  | From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books from Jewish Publication Society of America Price: $16.50 | |
| 18. |  | Zen Judaism: For You, A Little Enlightenment from Harmony Price: $9.56 Customer Review: looking for a little wisdom and a good laugh at the same time? i'm not jewish, but i do practice a bit of zen. this book gave me a bit of wisdom and often made me laugh out loud. you will not find too many answers to the eternal questions of life, but there are many pieces of wisdom, and more than... |
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| 19. |  | The Big Book of Jewish Humor from Collins Price: $16.47 Customer Review: I purchased this book as a gift for my brother. Before I repackaged it to send, I scanned several pages and found the stories, jokes and side bars very funny so, I ordered a second copy for myself. If you're looking for a place to discover the history of Jewish humor, the very early comedians... |
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| 20. |  | The Art of William Steig (Jewish Museum) from Yale University Press Price: $26.40 Customer Review: I went to see the William Steig exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York and I was fascinated by his art and humor. I wanted to buy the book right away but the store was closed, so I order it on Amazon and couldn't wait to receive it. I am very happy with this book. It's truly amazing and I... |
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| 21. |  | Disguised As Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, And the Creation of the Superhero from Continuum International Publishing Group Price: $16.47 Customer Review: I most enjoyed the Superman background. The book assumes knowledge of each of the comic book characters. There is no review of some of the more archaic "heroes." |
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| 22. |  | More Old Jewish Comedians (A BLAB! Storybook) from Fantagraphics Books Price: $9.89 Customer Review: A voyage back into yesteryear is where author Drew Friedman is going to take his readers in "More Old Jewish Comedians". Going over known and forgotten voices back in comedy's golden era of the 1950s and 1960s, Friedman will show his readers everything there is to know about these comedians and what... |
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| 23. |  | Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began from Pantheon Customer Review: I must say that I find this work hard to properly describe in terms of how I feel about it. I think that it was a fascinating look at one man's experience in the Holocaust, but an equally important aspect is Art's interaction with his father during their conversations. This seems like an honest... |
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| 24. |  | Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd from Ballantine Books Price: $10.17 Customer Review: A chochem is, in Yiddish, a wise person. Sam Apple, the writer, is a lot wiser than Sam Apple, the character he creates, a woody allen-ish hypochondriac awkwardly trying to write a book about a wandering Jewish Austrian shepherd. Apple also scores a literary triumph in his portrait of the... |
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| 25. |  | The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America from PublicAffairs Price: $13.50 Customer Review: I just finished reading "The Haunted Smile" and I loved it! I thought it was a perfect combination of history, story telling and wonderfully applicable joke excerpts. Not only did I laugh but I learned a great deal about the history of Jewish comedians in America and about the Jews who immigrated... |
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| 26. |  | Haiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables from Gotham Customer Review: I'm a list-lover. Show me a list of must-read books or must-see movies and I've got a pen out forthwith. So when I saw David M. Bader's selection of 100 great books, that was enough to "hook" me and I had to flip the pages. What a great idea: "Condensed into haiku, the 'great books' are now... |
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| 27. |  | Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Jokes, Limericks, and Anecdotes from Harper Paperbacks Price: $10.17 Customer Review: First, recount a completely unfunny joke, then explain that you tell it better than anyone else, then explain what it is that is supposed to make the joke funny. Irony, or what? |
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| 28. |  | The Jewish Princess Cookbook: Having Your Cake and Eating It . . . from McBooks Press Price: $12.89 | |
| 29. |  | Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother from Andrews McMeel Publishing Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother is an extraordinary work! Combining interviews, anecdotes, facts, history and humor, the author, Marnie Winston-Macauley, is passionate about her subject and shedding new light on the subject. Finally, a book that tells the story of the real heroes,... |
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| 30. |  | Jews in America: A Cartoon History from Jewish Publication Society of America Price: $21.28 Customer Review: I read or viewed or both , a chapter called ' The History of the Jews in the Graphic Novel'. It told the story of a number of significant Jewish graphic artists, Seigel and Schuster who invented 'Superman' and the inventor of the graphic - novel as genre , Will Eisner. For me it was quite... |
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