How to Be a Jewish Mother

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]

How to Be a Jewish Mother: A Very Lovely Training Manual
First edition
AuthorDan Greenburg
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPrice Stern Sloan
Publication date
October 1964[1]
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages99

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
  1. Battaglio, Stephen. David Susskind: A Televised Life, p. 251 (2010)
  2. Hackett, Alice Payne. Seventy years of best sellers, 1895-1965, p. 227 (1967)
  3. 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")
  4. Bernstein, Fred A. The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame (chapter on Leah Greenburg and the book) (1986)
  5. Werris, Wendy (2012-10-15). "Obituary: Larry Sloan, 89". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
  6. Wang, Regina (2012-10-18). "'Mad Libs' Publisher Larry Sloan Dies". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
  7. (29 December 1967). Theater: 'How to Be a Jewish Mother'; Molly Picon Stars With Godfrey Cambridge, The New York Times
  8. (10 March 2001). Une mère juive joyeuse et drôle, Le Parisien (in French)
  9. (6 October 2004). Comment devenir une mère juive...., lemagazine.info (in French)


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