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Tables of Contents for Big Book of Jewish Humor
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xiii
William Novak
Moshe Waldoks
PART ONE DEEPER MEANINGS
On Account of a Hat
8
7
Sholom Aleichem
The Meaning of Life
15
3
Stanley Elkin
Jewish Poker
18
10
Ephraim Kishon
Shabbas Nachamu
28
6
Isaac Babel
Letters to Einstein
34
7
Philip Roth
The Whore of Mensa
41
10
Woody Allen
The Babylonian Talmud
51
9
Eliezer ben Tam
PART TWO JEWISH & GOYISH
Jewish and Goyish
60
2
Lenny Bruce
The Jewbird
62
9
Bernard Malamud
The Purple Gang
71
2
Max Apple
The Dance of Genghis Cohn
73
19
Romain Gary
Floods Give Us Pleasure
92
5
Wallace Markfield
Shikses and Other Goyim
97
7
Philip Roth
PART THREE PROMISED LANDS
Antenna on the Roof
104
7
Mort Drucker
Frank Jacobs
The Man Who Exploded
111
2
``An Elder of Zion''
Elliot E. Cohen
Doonesbury
113
1
G. B. Trudeau
A Montrealer Seder
114
3
Elan Dresher
Norbert Hornstein
J. Lipa Roth
Let Us Now Claim Famous Men
117
4
Ralph Schoenstein
The Lecture
121
1
Abraham Shulman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jewish Humanitarian
122
2
Gerald Sussman
``Screw the Jews''
124
4
Paul Jacobs
Mel Brooks Is God
128
2
Gerald Sussman
Tales of the American Masters
130
3
Gary Epstein
There's More Ways Than One to Kill a Joke
133
5
Dan Ben-Amotz
Tel Aviv & Jerusalem
138
1
Yoram Matmor
Covering the Yom Kippur War
138
5
Chaim Bermant
The Jerusalem Roast
143
1
Gary Rosenblatt
Mark Twain and Sholom Aleichem
144
4
Edward Field
Ferry Tale from Romplesealskin for Nize Baby Wot Ate Opp All de Crembarry Suss
148
6
Milt Gross
Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N's White Banner
154
9
Leo Rosten
Dr. Klockenmeyer
163
9
Neil Simon
PART FOUR MAKING A LIVING
Groucho and Chico Make a Deal
172
4
George S. Kaufman
Morrie Ryskind
Waiting for Santy
176
5
S. J. Perelman
The Schnorrer's Apprentice
181
9
Israel Zangwill
Bargaining
190
1
Sam Levenson
Thoughts About Forty Cents
191
5
Moishe Nadir
Rabbis
196
4
Max Shulman
Hasidic Tales, with a Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar
200
2
Woody Allen
What Kind of Rabbi We Have
202
12
Sholom Aleichem
PART FIVE FIRST THINGS LAST
God Talk
214
6
Lenny Bruce
The Sacrifice of Isaac
220
1
Woody Allen
The Deluge
221
5
Jules Feiffer
The Twenty Commandments
226
10
Shel Silverstein
Happy Bar Mitzvah, Bernie!
236
10
Mordecai Richler
The Queen of Sheba
246
8
Isaac Rosenfeld
Transitory Love
254
4
Stanley Elkin
Rosh Hashanah Interruptus
258
9
Bruce Jay Friedman
Family Reunion
267
1
Judith Viorst
How to Be a Jewish Mother
268
3
Dan Greenburg
My Mother
271
1
Robert Mezey
My Mother
272
2
Philip Roth
Mama Goes Shopping
274
2
Sam Levenson
Truman and the Uncles
276
2
Joel Rosenberg
A Visit from My Mother-in-Law
278
1
Judith Viorst
Gold's Stepmother
279
3
Joseph Heller
Did I Order a Kosher Meal?
282
4
Saul Bellow
The Little Martian
286
1
Seymour Chwast
The Kosher Laws
287
4
Philip Roth
Jewish Waiter Joke
291
2
Robert Grossman
Bontsha the Silent
293
9
I. L. Peretz
Death on Second Avenue
302
Allan Sherman