Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews

Joseph Telushkin

Harper Collins, May 18, 2010 - Religion - 240 pages

Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you'll ever hear, interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves, their families, and their friends, and what they think about money, sex, and success. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is as celebrated for his wit as for his scholarship, and in this immensely entertaining book, he displays both in equal measure. Stimulating, something stinging, and always very, very funny, Jewish Humor offers a classic portrait of the Jewish collective unconscious.

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Jewish jokes together with analysis of them and what they tell us about the Jewish people and Judaism from a Jewish perspective. Very worth reading.

JEWISH HUMOR: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews

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Rabbi Telushkin (An Eye for an Eye, 1991), rooted in the tradition of reverence for past learning, has gathered lots of hoary jokes and aged wisecracks, together with a few more recent japes, that ...

About the author

Joseph Telushkin is a rabbi, scholar, and bestselling author of eighteen books, among them A Code of Jewish Ethics and Words That Hurt, Words That Heal. His book Jewish Literacy is the widest-selling work on the topic of Judaism. He lives with his wife, Dvorah, in New York City, and lectures regularly throughout the United States.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews
• Author: Joseph Telushkin
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2010
• ISBN: 0062012851, 9780062012852
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Humor; Religion / General; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion / Judaism / History