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IPPY Humor Award Winner

"Our Pal, God" and Other Presumptions

This award winning laugh-out-loud compilation of the best classic and modern Jewish jokes serves as a window into Jewish culture around the world and through the centuries. Field-tested by Mallow’s stand-up comedy audiences for decades, here are guaranteed rib-ticklers about matchmakers, cantors, and circumcisers; the overly pious, freethinkers, and heretics; the illogic of Jewish logic; and even Jewish encounters with alien societies! Not only is this a laugh-out-loud compilation of the best Jewish jokes that date back to the Talmud and up to today, but it’s also a fascinating and entertaining look at Jewish life around the world and through the centuries.

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Physics Professor By Day, Stand-up Comedian By Night Jeffry V. Mallow has been a physics professor at Loyola University Chicago, and public lecturer on science, politics and Jewish humor for more than 30 years. He has also been a stand-up comic with the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band.