How to Be a Jewish Mother
 First edition | |
| Author | Dan Greenburg |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Price Stern Sloan |
Publication date | October 1964[1] |
| 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 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.[8][9] 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).
References[]
- ^ a b c Battaglio, Stephen. David Susskind: A Televised Life, p. 251 (2010)
- ^ . Seventy years of best sellers, 1895-1965, p. 227 (1967)
- ^ The Bookseller ("Non-Fiction. The bestseller of the year in non- fiction was a book called How to Be a Jewish Mother, by Dan Greenburg")
- ^ Bernstein, Fred A. The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame (chapter on Leah Greenburg and the book) (1986)
- ^ Werris, Wendy (2012-10-15). "Obituary: Larry Sloan, 89". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ^ Wang, Regina (2012-10-18). "'Mad Libs' Publisher Larry Sloan Dies". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ^ (29 December 1967). Theater: 'How to Be a Jewish Mother'; Molly Picon Stars With Godfrey Cambridge, The New York Times
- ^ (10 March 2001). Une mère juive joyeuse et drôle, Le Parisien (in French)
- ^ (6 October 2004). Comment devenir une mère juive...., lemagazine.info (in French)
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