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008 100315s2010 nyu 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aPN6231.J5$bW44 2010
082 00 $a818/.5402$222
100 1 $aWeiner, Ellis.
245 14 $aThe big Jewish book for Jews :$beverything you need to know to be a really Jewish Jew /$cEllis Weiner and Barbara Davilman.
260 $aNew York :$bPlume,$cc2010.
300 $a239 p. ;$c23 cm.
505 0 $a"Just in case" -- How to purchase, make, and serve too much food -- Change your name! -- The temples -- How to obtain and mount a mezuzah -- How to embrace Fiddler -- How to order Cantonese food -- Learn and use the Jewish calendar -- How to tell if your wife is unfaithful -- How and why to make chopped liver -- Learn to speak and write like a rabbi in 1953 -- How to put your yarmulke on so it stays on -- How to be passive-aggressive, if that's what you insist on calling it -- The major holidays -- The other holidays -- How not to accept the first table you are shown at a restaurant -- Circumcision : take a little off the tip -- Dig that meshugga klezmer! -- How to deflect a compliment -- So you want to have an opinion about Islam -- Let's "get" a traditional divorce -- Worrying I : how to worry -- Worrying II : what to worry about -- How to give a backhanded compliment -- Chillin' and illin' with tefillin -- The original bam! : the basics of mah-jongg -- Reasons, in spite of everything, to still have a bar mitzvah -- Introduction to hondling -- Learn to whisper so that everyone can hear you (and then deny that you "said anything" -- How to build a sukkah -- So you want to have an opinion about antisemitism and Holocaust denial -- Let's keep kosher, finally! -- Discipline your son the Old Testament way -- How to recognize a no-goodnik -- Fringe benefits : the tallit -- How to sacrifice a lamb unto the Lord -- So you want to have an opinion about Christianity -- What are those icky Jewish dishes and do i have to eat them? -- The mitzvot -- Honor the Sabbath : it wouldn't kill you -- Use a sling to incapacitate your enemies! -- Let's summer in the Catskills if they're still there -- Beyond hip, already : Yiddish -- How to build an ark -- Learn the Kabbala (or make your own!) -- How to pack for a week in Florida -- Raise your daughters the Old Testament way -- The mikvah : come on in--the water's pure -- Introduction to the shofar -- Pickles every Jew should know from -- Flaunt contradictory opinions about the afterlife! -- A (Jewish) star is born : the magen David -- Humility now!.
650 0 $aJewish wit and humor.
650 0 $aJews$xIdentity
650 0 $aJews$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aJudaism$xCustoms and practices.
650 0 $aJews$vAnecdotes.
700 1 $aDavilman, Barbara.