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    Cover of The Jokes of Sigmund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jewish Identity
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    The Jokes of Sig­mund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jew­ish Identity
    Elliot Oring
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    Hus­bandry: Sex, Love and Dirty Laun­dry: Inside the Minds of Mar­ried Men
    Stephen Fried
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    Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me
    Ben Karlin, ed.
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    Laugh for God’s Sake: Where Jew­ish Humor and Jew­ish Ethics Meet
    Stanley J. Schachter
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    We Have Ways of Mak­ing You Laugh: 120 Fun­ny Swasti­ka Cartoons
    S. Gross
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    Cloth­ing Option­al: And Oth­er Ways to Read These Stories
    Alan Zweibel
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    Ladies and Gen­tle­men, The Bible!
    Jonathan Goldstein
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    So Punk Rock (And Oth­er Ways to Dis­ap­point Your Mother)
    Micol Ostow; David Ostow, illus.
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    Free-Range Chick­ens
    Simon Rich
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    Make ​‘em Laugh: The Fun­ny Busi­ness of America
    Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor
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    Camp Camp
    Roger Bennett and Jules Shell; Ivan Reitma, fwd.
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    Feed Me Bubbe
    Avrom Honig and Bubbe
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    When You Lie About Your Age The Ter­ror­ists Win: Reflec­tion on Look­ing in the Mirror
    Car­ol Leifer
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    Not a Hap­py Camper: A Memoir
    Mindy Schneider
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    Leave the Build­ing Quickly
    Cynthia Kaplan
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