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    Schmucks! Our Favorite Fakes, Frauds, Lowlifes, Liars, the Armed and Dan­ger­ous, and Good Guys Gone Bad
    Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder
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    Fore­skin’s Lament
    Shalom Aus­lan­der
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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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    Baby Bar­bells: The Dad’s Guide To Fit­ness and Fathering
    Joshua Levitt; Matt Stevens, illus.
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    Jew­topia: The Cho­sen Book for the Cho­sen People
    Bryan Fogel; Sam Wolfson
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    Beat­ing Around the Bush
    Art Buchwald
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    The Mod­ern Jew­ish Girl’s Guide to Guilt
    Ruth Andrew Ellenson
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    Life, Love, Lox: Real-world Advice for the Mod­ern Jew­ish Girl
    Carin Davis
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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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    Old Jews Telling Jokes: 5,000 Years of Fun­ny Bits and Not-so-Kosher Laughs
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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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    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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    Amen, Amen, Amen: Mem­oir of a Girl Who Could­n’t Stop Pray­ing (Among Oth­er Things)
    Abby Sher
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