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A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them.and Much More. Maybe Too Much More

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Overview

From three award-winning and bestselling humor writers comes a hilarious guide to everything you need to know about Jewish history, holidays, and traditions.

Immerse yourself in the essence of Jewish humor and culture with A Field Guide to the Jewish People brought to you by Dave Barry, Adam Mansbach, and Alan Zweibel.

Join them as they dissect every holiday, rite of passage, and tradition, unravel a long and complicated history, and tackle the tough questions that have plagued Jews and non-Jews alike for centuries.

Combining the sweetness of an apricot rugelach with the wisdom of a matzoh ball, this is the last book on Judaism that you will ever need. So gather up your chosen ones, open a bottle of Manischewitz, and get ready to laugh as you finally begin to understand the inner-workings of Judaism.

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ISBN-13:	9780594050131
Publisher:	Flatiron Books
Publication date:	09/24/2019
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	649,397
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

DAVE BARRY is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor writer whose columns and essays have appeared in hundreds of newspapers over the past thirty-five years. He has also written a number of New York Times bestselling humor books, including Lessons from Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog. He is not personally Jewish, but many of his friends are.

An original Saturday Night Live writer, ALAN ZWEIBEL has won numerous Emmy and Writers Guild of America Awards for his work in television, which includes It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (which he cocreated), Late Show with David Letterman, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award-winning play 700 Sundays, and won the Thurber Prize for his novel The Other Shulman. Unlike Dave Barry, he has no Jewish friends.

ADAM MANSBACH IS THE #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go the F**k to Sleep and You Have to F*****g Eat, as well as the California Book Award-winning novel The End of Jews, a dozen other books, and the movie Barry. His work which has been translated into more than forty lgnauges, has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and The Believer and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and This American Life. Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel are his only friends.

Hometown:

Miami, Florida

Date of Birth:

July 3, 1947

Place of Birth:

Armonk, New York

Education:

B.A. in English, Haverford College, 1969

Website:

http://www.davebarry.com

Forewords

Introduction

Preface

Prologue

A Note from the Authors

A JEWISH LIFE

The Name of G-d

What Are the Different Types of Jews?

Jewish Names

The Bris

Discussion Questions for the Bris

The Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Discussion Questions for the Bar/Bat Mitzvah

SIDEBAR: Frequently Asked Questions About Why Are Yarmulkes Round?

The Jewish Wedding

Judaism and Interfaith Marriage

Judaism and Sexuality

SIDEBAR: Sodom and Gomorrah

Jewish Divorce

Converting to Judaism

The Jewish Home

Keeping Kosher

SIDEBAR: Seltzer

Tzedakah

Death

SIDEBAR: The Evil Eye

The Afterlife

THE JEWISH YEAR

The Jewish CalendaR

Shabbat

Discussion Questions for Shabbat

Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashithead

Yom Kippur

SIDEBAR: The Miracle of Jonah

Sukkot

Chanukkah

Discussion Questions for Chanukkah

Tu B’Shvat

Purim

Passover

How to Make Perfect Matzah Balls Every Time

Next Year in Jerusalem

SIDEBAR: Ten Remarkable Similarities Between Moses and Elvis

SIDEBAR: The Book of Joshua

Shavuot

Tisha B’Av

Simchat Torah

JEWISH HISTORY

The Creation Story

The Origins of Judaism

Discussion Questions for The Origins of Judaism

SIDEBAR: The First Jewish Comedian

SIDEBAR: The Story of Isaac

The Kings of Israel: The First Temple

The Second Temple

The Third Temple

SIDEBAR: The Talmud

The First Millenium

SIDEBAR: The Kabbalah

SIDEBAR: The Golem

Israel

SIDEBAR: Bargaining in Israel

The History of Bagels

Modern Jewish History

SIDEBAR: Oy

SIDEBAR: Feh

SIDEBAR: Frequently Asked Questions About the Word “Tumult”

The Holocaust

Last Thursday

QUIZZES, QUESTIONS & ANSWERS, LISTS, AND OTHER ATTEMPTS TO MEET OUR CONTRACTUALLY-OBLIGATED WORD COUNT

Are You an Anti-Semite?

Common Questions About Judaism

Ten People We Wish Were or Were Not Jewish, Ten People You Didn’t Know Were or Were Not Jewish, and Ten People We are Thrilled Aren’t Jewish

A Conversation with the Authors

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Type

From the B&N Reads Blog

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Editorial Reviews

"An irreverent take on Jewish life, culture, and lore. No topic is off limits.... This is another zany book for Jews and those who love them." —Kirkus Reviews
“They're back again! However you say ‘three amigos’ in Yiddish, that's exactly what they are. They are like as wheatgrass shot of Jewish culture. If I was having a Bar Mitzvah, I would want to recite lines from this book. Everything I read from these three gives me Jewish envy. I laughed til I plotzed. Did I use that correctly?” —W. Kamau Bell, goyish comedian

From the Publisher

2019-06-23
Three comic writers delve into what it means to be Jewish.
Barry, Mansbach, and Zweibel (For This We Left Egypt? A Passover Haggadah for Jews and Those Who Love Them, 2017) team up again in an irreverent take on Jewish life, culture, and lore. No topic is off limits for jokes that range from silly to sophomoric: the Holocaust ("there was still, in the end, a positive side of the Holocaust," the authors declare, before abruptly changing their minds); the Arab-Israeli conflict (Israel has won all wars since 1948 "because militarily the Israeli armed forces are the Harlem Globetrotters of the Middle East"); and anti-Semitism. "Are you an anti-Semite?" the authors ask, providing a quiz to test which of many Jewish stereotypes a responder believes. Are Jews "opinionated, pushy, and prone to butting in?" Or are they "clannish, secretive, and reclusive"? Either answer will brand you as an anti-Semite. More Jewish stereotypes fuel jokes about Jewish customs, holidays, food, attitudes toward interfaith marriage, teachings of the Talmud, and, not least, sex: "Q. What is Jewish foreplay? A. Three hours of begging." Of the three authors, Barry, a Presbyterian married to a Cuban-Jewish woman, is not "technically Jewish," but he admits that he has attended many High Holiday services, "some of which lasted longer than the Korean conflict." The authors found that they had to bone up on the Old Testament and the "incredibly weird shit" in the Torah to make fun of biblical stories, people, and God's sometimes-incomprehensible commandments, such as the requirement that every male newborn be circumcised. "A surprising amount of research goes into the crafting of every single cheap dick joke we write," Mansbach reveals. Although some readers might be offended by the repeated characterization of Jews as cheap, argumentative, and opinionated—"two Jews, three opinions" the saying goes—Barry sees self-deprecating Jewish humor as "an important psychological mechanism for coping with misfortune, and Jews have had a LOT of misfortune, especially when you compare them to the Presbyterians."
Following their previous collaboration, this is another zany book for Jews and those who love them.

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A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them.and Much More. Maybe Too Much More

A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them.and Much More. Maybe Too Much More

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