An unmissable gift book,A Small Book of Jewish Comediansis a perfect (please God) post-pandemic pick-me-up
ANew York Times Book Review2021 holiday gift guide pick.
In 1978, Time magazine estimated that around 80 percent of professional American comics were Jewish, and Jewish humor remains a foundation stone of American popular culture and humor. This book is not intended as a definitive tome but is instead a joyful and irreverent celebration of great photography and some of the greatest one-liners of the 20th century, ripe in satire, anecdote, self-deprecation and irony.
