![]() First edition | |
Author | Dan Greenburg |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Price Stern Sloan |
Publication date | October 1964 [1] |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print ( hardcover) |
Pages | 99 |
How to Be a Jewish Mother is a 1964 Jewish humor book by American humorist Dan Greenburg which was the best-selling non-fiction book in the United States in 1965, with 270,000 copies sold. [2] [3] [4] The book was first published by Price Stern Sloan under publisher Larry Sloan. [5] [6]
The book was adapted into a play starring Molly Picon and Godfrey Cambridge which had a brief run on Broadway at the Hudson Theater from December 1967 through January 1968. [1] [7] The actress Gertrude Berg was preparing for the main role in the play but died during pre-production. [8]
The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway.
A 1983 French adaptation, Comment devenir une mère juive en 10 leçons, met with long-running success. [9] [10] Gertrude Berg also released a best-selling comedy album from the book in 1965. [1]
It was re-issued as a mass-market paperback in 1991 ( ISBN 0843100206, ISBN 9780843100204).
It is deemed as a book that reinforced the stereotype of the Jewish mother in American culture. [11] The anthropologist Jonathan Boyarin qualified the book a "work of covert anti-Semitism". [12]
![]() First edition | |
Author | Dan Greenburg |
---|---|
Language | English |
Publisher | Price Stern Sloan |
Publication date | October 1964 [1] |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print ( hardcover) |
Pages | 99 |
How to Be a Jewish Mother is a 1964 Jewish humor book by American humorist Dan Greenburg which was the best-selling non-fiction book in the United States in 1965, with 270,000 copies sold. [2] [3] [4] The book was first published by Price Stern Sloan under publisher Larry Sloan. [5] [6]
The book was adapted into a play starring Molly Picon and Godfrey Cambridge which had a brief run on Broadway at the Hudson Theater from December 1967 through January 1968. [1] [7] The actress Gertrude Berg was preparing for the main role in the play but died during pre-production. [8]
The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway.
A 1983 French adaptation, Comment devenir une mère juive en 10 leçons, met with long-running success. [9] [10] Gertrude Berg also released a best-selling comedy album from the book in 1965. [1]
It was re-issued as a mass-market paperback in 1991 ( ISBN 0843100206, ISBN 9780843100204).
It is deemed as a book that reinforced the stereotype of the Jewish mother in American culture. [11] The anthropologist Jonathan Boyarin qualified the book a "work of covert anti-Semitism". [12]