How to Be a Jewish Mother: A Very Lovely Training Manual
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]
^ abcBattaglio, Stephen. David Susskind: A Televised Life, p. 251 (2010)
^Hackett, Alice Payne. 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)
HowtoBeaJewishMother is a 1964 Jewish humor book by American humorist Dan Greenburg which was the best-selling non-fiction book in the United States...
limited to the complaining and guilt-inflicting Jewishmother, often along with a meek nice Jewish boy, and the spoiled and materialistic Jewish-American...
Theodore Evelyn Mosby is a fictional character and the protagonist in the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Josh Radnor. He serves as...
Jewish Christians were the followers of aJewish religious sect that emerged in Judea during the late Second Temple period (first century AD). These Jews...
Jewish secularism refers to secularism in aJewish context, denoting the definition of Jewish identity with little or no attention given to its religious...
Amother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered amother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be...
Jewish, but may not actually be considered Jews according to traditional Jewish law. There are some groups that have adopted Jewish customs and practices. For...
retail management. In 2010, Zarin published the book Secrets of aJewishMother with her mother and sister. Zarin married Steven Shapiro in 1987; they divorced...
Head - 'it's a big theme of my life'". The Jewish Chronicle. October 4, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012. "Josh Radnor: How I Met Your Mother on CBS". CBS...
also had a recurring role on How I Met Your Mother. His wife, Alyson Hannigan, starred in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and How I Met Your Mother. Denisof...
Carlos Veiga, a former prime minister of Cape Verde. He said in a 2018 interview: “my grandfather on my mother’s side was Jewish, who came to Cape Verde...
equal. While Jewish teaching holds that a married woman must honour her husband, there are also guidelines for how she may continue to honour her parents:...
titles, many of which were humorous, released under Sloan was HowtoBeaJewishMother, written by Dan Greenburg and first released in 1965 and Droodles...
rise to the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish diaspora is a wide dispersion of Jewish communities across the world that have maintained their sense of Jewish history...
mother, the mother's father, the mother'smother. In stark contrast to Sephardi customs, Ashkenazim have a longstanding superstition about naming a child...
"law", or "instruction", although "Torah" can also be used as a general term that refers to any Jewish text that expands or elaborates on the original Five...
Fitzgerald) from a wealthy family and aJewish cab driver who aspires tobea playwright (Bernie Steinberg), whom she had met at a bus stop. With a primetime...
published and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller. Her second book, HowtoBea Domestic Goddess, was published in 2000, winning the British Book Award...
first book, a memoir titled Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad, describing the persecution of his Jewish parents in the Second World War, how his mother survived...
Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, is the autobiography and memoir of James McBride first published in 1995; it is also a tribute to his mother...
known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014. He began his career with director and producer Judd...
Jewish identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a Jew and as relating to being Jewish. Under a broader definition, Jewish...
Global Information