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Salcia Landmann
On the Sabbath, Moshe Goes to the Rabbi
The Best Jewish Jokes
Compiled and edited by Rainer Moritz
With cartoons by Peter Gaymann
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ISBN: 978-3-8436-0230-3
Hardback
128 pages, 2-color
Format 12 x 19 cm
EUR 12.99
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The Gift of Jewish Humor
• The “Greatest Hits” of Jewish jokes
• Delightfully illustrated by Peter Gaymann
This volume unites the deepest, bitterest and sharpest – in
short, the best – Jewish jokes from Salcia Landmann’s
centuries-spanning collection. With a fine touch, the
renowned cartoonist Peter Gaymann has ingeniously set
these jokes in scene, thus making a quality gift for every
occasion.
Zobel boasts of his wife’s beauty.
A friend: “Do you really not know that your wife is cheating on you with four different men?”
“So? I’d rather have twenty percent of a good thing than a hundred percent of something bad.”
About the author
Salcia Landmann (1911–2002) was born in Galicia to a Jewish family, and became a journalist and a
writer. She survived the Holocaust in Switzerland.
About the editor
Dr. Rainer Moritz, author und literary critic, is director of the Literaturhaus Hamburg.
About the illustrator
Peter Gaymann is a draughtsman and cartoonist. His humorous, tongue-in-cheek cartoons focus on
humanity’s everyday strengths and weaknesses.
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