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Issue: The Big Book of Jewish Humor #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1981
 
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Publisher: FlagHarperCollins
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Indicia Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
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Pages: 308
ISBN: 006090917X
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Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): William Novak; Moshe Waldoks
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The Unhappiest Man in New York

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Shary Flenniken
Shary Flenniken (signed)
Shary Flenniken (signed)
Shary Flenniken (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
A man has an Irish psychiatrist and a Jewish bartender.
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Kirschen (signed)
Kirschen (signed)
Kirschen (signed)
Kirschen (signed)
Subject Matter
German T.V. stations flooded with calls?!
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Antenna on the Roof

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Jacobs
Mort Drucker (signed)
Mort Drucker (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Fiddler Made a Goof Dept.
Zero Mostel [as Mr. Buckchaser]; Estelle Parsons [as Mrs. Buckchaser]; Pamela Rogers [as Shiela Buckchaser]; Katharine Ross [as Nancy Buckchaser]; Woody Allen [as Harvey]; Topol [as Tevye]
The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" is updated to contemporary times and transplanted into American suburbia.
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Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
G. B. Trudeau (signed)
G. B. Trudeau (signed)
G. B. Trudeau (signed)
G. B. Trudeau (signed)
Subject Matter
Doonesbury
Mark
Mark, before you go,E
Marks father wants him to join his old fraternity.
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Miscellaneous
0.75
Stretched across the bottom of three pages
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Kirschen (signed)
Kirschen (signed)
Kirschen (signed)
Kirschen (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Methuselah
Methuselah, you're 969 years old!!..
Methuselah is still waiting for his phone to be installed.
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Miscellaneous
0.75
The Deluge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer
Subject Matter
Harvey W. Noah
Harvey is given a message by an angel to build an ark. He refers it to the US government, who mix things up.
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Miscellaneous
3
No panel borders
Originally appeared in Esquire, October 1958
The Twenty Commandments

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
Subject Matter
humorous, religious
Moses (implied)
Unable to carry the 20 commandments, Moses breaks it in half and takes the first ten.
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Miscellaneous
6
Each page is one panel.
From Different Dances (1979)
A Visit to Upper Broadway

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Seymour Chwast (signed)
Seymour Chwast (signed)
Seymour Chwast (signed)
Seymour Chwast (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous, science fiction
The Little Martian
A martian lands on Earth. A wheel breaks and he goes into a bagel shop to buy a replacement wheel.
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Miscellaneous
1
Jewish Waiter Joke

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Grossman (signed)
Robert Grossman (signed)
Robert Grossman (signed)
Robert Grossman (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Dr. Roland Blog; Max Tish; Henry Lee; Leon
Good afternoon.
Roland Blog and a cast dramatize a joke.
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Miscellaneous
1
Title appears to be "Dr Roland Blog, noted professor of comparative jokology, lectures on the Jewish Waiter Joke"

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