[moderately worn, light fraying to cloth at extremities, some soiling to page edges; jacket is somewhat ragged, numerous chips and tears, small hole at spine, presentable in new Brodart protector]. INSCRIBED ("To ____________ / a token of friendship" and SIGNED by the editor (dated in the year of publication) on the ffep. Rabbi Mendelsohn's third collection of Jewish jokes and humorous stories, "retold with a punch and vigor for which the author has made a name for himself in the field of Anglo-Jewish humor." In his preface, the author states that "much of the material in this volume [is] different from that of its predecessors. A number of stories touch on new phases of Jewish life in America, and a much larger group manifests the peculiar psychology of East European Jewry. The latter category makes this compilation more truly folkloristic than the previous volumes." (There is one chapter devoted entirely to "Hitleria.") Rabbi Mendelsohn was spiritual leader of Temple Beth Israel in Chicago, an instructor at several Jewish colleges, an editorial writer, and the originator of Jewish Book Week in 1927. Signed by Editor

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