- Paperback: 310 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (USA) (30 Nov 1981)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 006090917X
- ISBN-13: 978-0060909178
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.3 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 843,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of Jewish humour from every source imaginable;literature, jokes, children's books, magazines, comics and others, from Woody Allen to Israel Zangwill. This best selling book makes an ideal gift for any occasion. Or better still, buy it for yourself!
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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
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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
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is difficult to think of any situation where there isn't a Jewish joke that puts a humourus slant to it.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Still Unsurpassed [with an addendum]
21 Nov 2002
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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.
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.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Big Book of Jewish Humor
31 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
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.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
What a classic!
20 Dec 2000
Format:Paperback
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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