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EAN: 9780860518594 ISBN: 0860518590 Label: Robson Books Ltd Manufacturer: Robson Books Ltd Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: January 01, 1998 Publisher: Robson Books Ltd Studio: Robson Books Ltd Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: First published in 1982, then in 1989, this current and updated version of Allan Gould's and Danny Siegel's classic explores all kinds of inanities and insanities sure to tickle the sternest funny bone. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Funny, Entertaining, and CleverSiegel and Gould have taken sophisticated humor to a new height. Even if you are not Jewish, have never attended a Bar Mitzvah, or have not seen the movie 'Goodbye Columbus', I think you will still appreciate the humor. The jokes are not always simplistic - and that is what makes them so much more appreciated. These are not stand-up routines, rather, they are well-thought out pieces of prose. The Unorthodox Book of Jewish Records & Lists is obviously patterned after the ... Read More Rating:  - Some nice jokes, but not very entertainingFirst off, this book's humor is rather specialized. Only Jews or those familiar with Jewish culture are likely to get many of the jokes collected in it. Secondly, the book isn't all that funny, in my opinion, even though I got the jokes. Numerous jokes with potential got ruined by poor "delivery" and others were repeated over and over till they lost the punch. Some were good (such as the idea of a uniquely Jewish disease: guilt) were okay but the book just didn't make me laugh the way other ... Read More 
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