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Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilar­i­ous, Dis­turb­ing, Mar­velous, and Inspir­ing Things I Learned When I Read Every Sin­gle Word of the Bible
David Plotz
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Cae­sar’s Hours: My Life in Com­e­dy, With Love and Laughter
Sid Cae­sar with Eddy Friedfeld
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Jew­topia: The Cho­sen Book for the Cho­sen People
Bryan Fogel; Sam Wolfson
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Baby Bar­bells: The Dad’s Guide To Fit­ness and Fathering
Joshua Levitt ; Matt Stevens, illus.
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The Mod­ern Jew­ish Girl’s Guide to Guilt
Ruth Andrew Ellenson
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Beat­ing Around the Bush
Art Buch­wald
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The Big Jew­ish Book for Jews: Every­thing You Need to Know to Be a Real­ly Jew­ish Jew
Ellis Wein­er and Bar­bara Davilman
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Life, Love, Lox: Real-world Advice for the Mod­ern Jew­ish Girl
Carin Davis
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Sam Hoff­man with Eric Spiegelman
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Siegel and Shus­ter’s Fun­ny­man: The First Jew­ish Super­hero From the Cre­ators of Superman
Thomas Andrae and Mel Gor­don, eds; Dan­ny Fin­geroth , fwd.
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I Drink For A Reason
David Cross
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Amen, Amen, Amen: Mem­oir of a Girl Who Could­n’t Stop Pray­ing (Among Oth­er Things)
Abby Sher
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What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wis­dom About Love, Life and Comedy
Susie Ess­man
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My Foot­print: Car­ry­ing the Weight of the World
Jeff Gar­lin
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Some­times I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and Observations
Jill Kargman
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Mr. Fun­ny Pants
Michael Showal­ter
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The House on Crash Cor­ner and Oth­er Unavoid­able Calamities
Mindy Green­stein
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Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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Joel Chas­noff
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Gre­gorey Levey
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