What they say about awordinyoureye.com

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REVIEWS OF THE WEBSITE AND BOOK
Extracts taken from email sent to David
(listed in chronological sequence, latest on top)

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Dear David.   I Googled "Jewish jokes" and came across your website which is the best and fullest collection I've seen so far. Thank you very much!!! I really enjoyed it!.
[Eugenia R, Vancouver, Canada]

Dear Sir.  I've read the set of jokes to the 27th set for now and I am enjoying them very much (even though I am a goyim).  I want to thank you for your excellent website.   Many thanks.  Mazzle Tov!
[Vincent L, Ghent, Belgium]

Dear David, I just finished reading "Oy Vey: More!" and found it just as funny as its predecessor, "Oy!" (which was: very funny). Kindest regards
[Richard S, New York, USA]

Hi David.    Your compilation of jokes is marvellous.  Thanks! They kept a smile on my face for a long time.
My great grandfather had a bakery in Pressburg well over 100 years ago.   The family story is that one day a yiddene came to complain that she had found a fly in the roll.  Without blinking an eyelid my great grandad retorted "Well, what do you think for the money you paid you would get rozinkes."    I think that may have been the originator of the fly and the rozinkes joke.
[Tova T, Israel]

Hi David.  Thanks so much for giving my wife + me so much pleasure. All the best in 2010.  PS. Why do you have a section of non-J. jokes?  There are potentially MILLIONS - how would you cope?  And why bother?
[Ron L, Durham, UK]

Dear David.  Every once in a while I run across humorous sites that I really understand and appreciate. Yours' is one of those.   Thanks for sharing.
[Victor Z]

Thanks for the laughs, David. Enjoyed your 110th set.  Pity about including the brothel one - spoils the tone.  But I am not consistent because I love joke #1982.    [And] if you don't already have them, here are some tales for you to embellish in your excellent, inimitable fashion.        Keep the great jokes coming.  You'll enjoy a wonderful reward when at long last you get Up There.  Looking forward to your next page of jokes on your site.
[Laurence F, Manchester, UK]

You are the original Egg Head of Jewish Jokes. I am back in New York and maybe on this side of the Atlantic I can pick up new Jewish jokes unknown to you in the UK.
[Jay F, New York, USA]

David, You must have every joke known to man.
[Nathan B, Australia]

David, A really great site. Really.   I read and laugh aloud. The gentile jokes are lame in comparison to the real humor.  I use many at work Jokes. Thanks for the laughs
[Tim R, Canada]

David, I am searching for a wonderful joke you had about the things children say about G-d….would you know where I could find it?   Many thanks and a job well done on a great site.
[Aaron F, Toronto, Canada]

Since I discovered your wonderful "Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes" I laugh on every occasion I read it.
[Ilan H, Jerusalem, Israel]

David, Thank you for all the fun and humor you bring into our lives. I am as proud as a Jewish mother can get (re your new book). You and your family must be thrilled. When the First Book Of Yiddish Humor came out, my parents bought it  and I have had an affair with Jewish humor ever since.
[Lynn F, Givat Avnie, Israel]

David Minkoff, author of Oy and Oy Vey, The Ultimate Books of Jewish Jokes, started collecting good (and sometimes bad) jokes long before publication of the books. He has been adding them regularly to his website, www.awordinyoureye.com, where fans have been reading, printing, and retelling them in every possible environment. We have friends who participate in a weekly Talmud study group that always begins with a joke from this site.
THE JEWISH JOKES OF awordinyoureye.com now number more than 2,245, and are arranged in categories. There are 108 sets of Jewish jokes, puzzles, material for speeches, Jewish jokes for children, naughtier Jewish jokes, and even three sets of non-Jewish jokes. Laugh a little!
[Jewish Humor Central website, Oct 09]

You are world famous. I received one of your jokes this morning from a retired guy, a former mathematician in Lousiana, who relocated to one of the Arkansas lakes, bought a house, and spends time fishing there.
[BMS, USA]

David. Thanks for the joy you bring. I have many people who have groaned to your jokes, especially for the way they say I tell them. May the new year bring you many new jokes. They say, and I don't know who they are, that ALL jokes are the descendants of one early joke, and that joke has been lost to history. It's really a very funny one and all jokes since have been trying to capture, or recapture, its essence. It's probably the joke G-d was telling when He said, "be fruitful and multiply".
I understand that early jokes were very physical and unsubtle, and as time passes they become more subtle, and hence more removed from the original joke, probably a pratfall.
[Hanoch B]

Your whole enterprise is really a credit to you David. It must be most gratifying to have a widening crowd of followers.
[Hilary A, Australia]

David. May you, along with Andrea, continue to go from strength to strength, and to continue to prosper in all that you do to make us chuckle & laugh!  May the forthcoming year see many more additions to your continuous "book", with the heartily of laughter and joy that you have brought to millions, including me.
[Danny & Abby S, USA]

David, thank you for the work you do to provide necessary mirth for all of us in these trying times.
[John B, USA]

David.  Thank you for bringing some joy into the world - we certainly could do with it.
[Freda D, UK]

David.  Thanks for all the wonderful jokes which keep me, my father and friends entertained.
[Judy, Italy]

David. Thank you...you make a difference and the show must go on. Win the day.
[Dave M, USA]

I just love this site.  Thank you for the entertainment.
[George B, Texas, USA]

Hi  I came across your webpage while googling for "Jewish jokes" and really loved it ! Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!     I appreciate the fact that most Jews I have come across have a great sense of humour, laugh at themselves and tell me jokes about Jews and are not touchy at all!    I googled for Jewish jokes after I read a book (which I picked in Goodwill this week!) called "A treasury of Jewish Folklore" (hardbound, 1950) by Ausubel. This book too was wonderful and lead me to search for more Jewish humour on the net.      Once again, thanks for making me laugh.......& laugh & laugh.
[Bharathy, Canada]

You have no idea how many of my Gentile friends all over the world are laughing at your jokes and getting to understand just a little more about all of us. Your jokes really are serving a purpose even higher than making people laugh. They are busting stereotypes and opening minds. I have spent many hours writing to people who are not Jewish, about the origins of Jewish humour and how in many ways Black comedians have the same root reasons for their humour.
[Lynn F, Givat Avnie, Israel]

Hello David. Found your website whilst browsing today and had a good laugh, thank you for that. I have lived in the U.S.A for the last 31 years and I really don’t hear too many Jewish jokes these days, everyone has to be so politically correct.   Best regards
[Anthony D, Studio City, California, USA]

Hi David.  I came across your website, awordinyoureye.  Great stuff. Thanks & regards
[Alex F]

David - that is one excellent joke (the cleaner #1936)! Altogether the 105th is an excellent set. Please mark it with a gold star!
[Hilary A, Melbourne, Australia]

Love your website. Cheers
[Jack G, Canada]

Mazel-tov David. Another gem of a collection (re 105th set of jokes)
[Asher P, West Cornwall, Connecticut, USA]

The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes:  Next on our list is this collection by David Minkoff. One has to admit that with over 1000 jokes it has got to be the Jewish book with the best and amazingly comprehensive jokes. Guaranteed to split your sides, here you will find Jewish jokes on everything from relationships, rabbis, miracles, in laws, bar mitzvahs, hairdressers etc. Coupled with this are jokes for the reading and laughing pleasure of children, quips that you can use for a speech, tests of compatibility for couples that are dating and of course a section with naughtier jokes. A complete Jewish book of humor.
[From JewishGlobe.com]

Still looking at holy humor sites, let’s raise a glass of Manischewitz for awordinyoureye.com.  Such a Web site, this is!   awordinyoureye.com, based on the 2007 book Oy! The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes by David Minkoff, comes close to a canonical list of the genre.   More than 2,000 jokes are posted here, on classic themes from bar mitzvah boys to doting Yiddishe mamas to retorts against anti-Semites. Not unusual for a Jewish humor site, but this one seems especially easy to get around.        A very basic chart, almost mid-’90s style, groups the jokes under more than 90 text-based links — and growing; the last bunch was added just this year. Others, with sexual themes, are grouped under “Naughtier Jewish Jokes.” And a few dozen are just for children. (Don’t mix ‘em up!)  Minkoff shows a helpful side with sample speeches for wedding toasts and 60th birthdays. Also helpful is a glossary of Yiddish terms. At last, you’ll know when to kvell and when to kvetch.   Other sections are more serious. One offers some kosher-themed brain teasers. Another reports on the healing power of laughter. But you may wish to skip the boring, 1,870-word essay on Freud’s psychoanalysis of humor.
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I have enjoyed so many hours of laughter reading your jokes. I send some to my friends and family and we enjoy them together. Thank you soooo much for sending them to me. I do hope you enjoy the jokes that I send to you.
[Ruth O]

Dear David.   I shall look into your new category (doctor / medical) as soon as possible. I'm sure it will be very entertaining.
[Judy S, Aosta, Italy]

Great work (re 104th set of jokes). Thank u
[Yossi G, Brussels, Belgium]

Hi David.  Bis hundert unzwunzig (till 120 ...) is not a good blessing for you, as I want to see many many more [jokes].   BTW we bless till 120 and 2 weeks. Why?.... We don't want to spoil the birthday party.   A great work you did again.
[Uriah, Kfar Yonah, Israel]

David, This is one of your best sets (the 103rd). I have been unable to get any work done because of laughing at these moments of mirth. The first joke I read to my mom and she burst out laughing…. I especially appreciated the one about Moses ….. Regarding Green Eggs and Ham, I first thought of turkey ham. There was a commercial that came out about 20 or so years ago about a Jewish young man singing the praises of this turkey ham to his mother. It went fine until he said it tasted like the real thing ….. The last one was the best good news bad news joke I have heard in a long time. I really needed those today. Thank you.
[The IrRev, Kansas, USA]

Hi David. Thank you for all the great jokes which I use on special occasions.
[Roy, Australia]

Thanks David, These (the 11th set of naughty Jewish jokes) are a riot!
[April, Florida, USA]

Thanks David, I don't know how you do it all. I am still laughing. You have no idea how many of us are now searching for a joke you have not heard; but judging from the amount of work in your site I think it a fruitless effort. I am addicted; sometimes I laugh so hard my kids run up the steps to see what is wrong. Fabulous just fabulous.
[Lynn F, Givat Avnie, Israel]

Hello David, Your new 'NJ' set is wonderful. Thank you for your good work.
[Asher P, West Cornwall, Connecticut, USA]

Dear David, I'm not Jewish but have a dear friend who's a rabbi and he recommended your book and I've laughed and laughed. I'm a liberal minded CofE vicar so often translate the jokes for my elderly congregation who love them. Do you have any tips on collecting jokes and how they've worked for you?
Anyway, thanks for the effort you've gone to. Thanks for lifting up peoples lives. Sincerely and God bless
[Marc P, UK]

Dear David   A few days ago I discovered your brilliant website, which is a wonderful panacea for our troubled times. I have only just stated exploring it.
[Keith L, Southgate, UK]

Hi. Firstly thanks for your website – mention in some of the jokes of Grodzinski and Lindy’s bring back memories of childhood, as I grew up in Willesden.  Although I didn’t realise until a few years ago that my great grandfather was a Jewish pastry chef in Berlin, I’ve always had a penchant for Jewish humour – possibly it’s ancestry playing its tricks!
[Peter M, UK]

My thanks to you for many hours of pleasure reading and laughing at your Jewish jokes!!
[Ruth O]

In appreciation for all the wonderful laughs my friends and I have shared from your site, there is this hope this joke is not one of yours already!!!
[Lynn F, Givat Avnie, Israel]

I haven't had time to go thru all your site but my brother-in -law who is crazy about your site sent me this joke; if you have it already, sorry
[Lynn F, Givat Avnie, Israel]

My mum told me about your website. Bless her for that!   I noticed several of the jokes say Hendon Road. It made me think that they were written by an out-of-towner who assumed it was like an extension of Golders Green Road. But no - it turns out you are from here too. But is Hendon Road even a road? Excuse my ignorance!!  Regards
[Esther, UK]

Ha, ha LOL, thanks David! I guess that Bent Cross shopping center or should I spell it centre(?) is the hot place for the Jewish in London town. Everything funny with Jews takes place there apparently. Shalom
[April, Florida, USA]

Mazal Tov on your landmark 101st set of jokes. As they say in Israel 'Ad me'ar esrim'.
[Simon, Edgware, UK]

Thanks for providing such a funny, entertaining website. Keep it up!
[Esther, London]

David. I have had a lot of pleasure reading your jokes. I read 1 that I thought was hilarious but I cannot find it again. It was the one about the wife going to the doctor and the doctor telling her all the nice things she should do otherwise he will die. Could you please let me know what page I need to look at. Many thanks
[David M, Borehamwood, UK]

Hi David.  As a fellow writer (composer/lyricist) I appreciate the enormous amount of work, talent and accomplishment that has gone into writing the Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes.
[Roy S, UK]

Hello David. Your website has given me endless mirth over the past few years.
[Ajit N, Bangalore, India].

Hi David.  Last week I have received your jokes website and found pages of some of the funniest jokes I have ever heard. Thanks
[Arthur H, Melbourne Australia]

Dear David.  Keep up your great work with humor. It is certainly needed these days. And Mazel Tov on reaching "100" sets.  May this be just the beginning of your wonderful effort. Shalom.
[Asher]

Hi David: Mazel Tov on your first 100 sets of Jewish jokes. It takes a certain kind of person to accomplish such an undertaking as this. I had all the faith in the world you would do it. Now how about going for the 200 mark????? Best regards
[Stan The Man C]

Love your website but a small correction re: Mezuzah's.  You actually touch the Mezuzah then you touch your lips (not the other way around).  Thanks for the great site and all the best wishes for Happy Chanukah!!!
[Melinda B]

Hi David.  Thank you for another wonderful set of jokes [#99].
[Peter B]

Thanks David, your jokes are like a ray of sunshine on a freezing cold morning here in the Alps, Warmest regards
[Judy S, Switzerland]

Thanks David.  More great stuff (99th set of jokes).  Best wishes
[Laurence F]

David. Have enjoyed your web site. Keep up the good work. Best wishes for continued success.
[Asher P, West Cornwall, Connecticut, USA]

David. I found this cute quote in a article that I was reading about the life of Victor Borge . I thought of you right away. "A laugh is the shortest distance between two people."
[Stan C, (Stan The Man), USA]

David.  Thank you, I always look forward to reading the latest jokes and generally pass them on to my brother-in-laws!
[Freda D, London, UK]

David, just what I needed this morning was to find your collection of mirthful moments to uplift my spirits. These are excellent. Thank you.
[The IrRev, Kingman, Kansas, USA]

Thanks, always enjoy hearing from you (re 98th set of jokes).
[Cheryl R, South Africa]

I took a look at my hotmail account... and there is your latest set 98!  Great stuff, as ever. I like very much the way you have redacted the jokes I sent you.  They read so smoothly - lovely style you have.
[Laurence F]

Thank you.   You give me a chance to smile, when all I want to do is cry.
[Eva, Canada]

I enjoy your collection of Jewish jokes very much.
[Howard K, Orlando, Florida, USA]

Great stuff (the 97th set of jokes), David!!  Well done once again. Thanks for your site. It brings me cheer which I pass on. (I once read that the best way to repay a favour is to pass it on.)      Happy New Year to you and yours and all your readers.
[Laurence F]

Dear David: I made an assumption you were from USA because of your sense of humor. All the English movies I have seen made me think of the dry sense of humor. Very funny but not like the jokes I've read so far in your book. I wouldn't have guessed you are a Brit.          Nonetheless, thanks so much for your return email.  I am really laughing out loud reading your book and then I look around in my house to see if there was anyone looking at me because it really is loud.     Again, thanks for doing this compilation which I will treasure.
[Bill K, Florida, USA]

David: My name is Bill K and my dad was also a kosher butcher and, primarily, a poulterer.  His name was Sam K and I was wondering if your dad might have known him.  Both my brother and I now live in Florida (so, where else is a Jew supposed to go?) and I just bought another copy of your book to give to him.
We really appreciate what you are doing.
[Bill K, Florida, USA]

Hi David.   There doesn't seem to be any Jewish joke that has escaped you!  However, I will continue my quest to one day send you a joke that you never heard, although I doubt that I will be successful!   Keep laughing.
[Carol, USA]

Dear David   What a wonderful site you have compiled; a real treasure!
[Raymond B, UK]

Lovely choice of joke - always appreciated
[David S, London, UK]

Hi David: Just read your 96th set of Jewish jokes and I think there has to be something magical in the way you do this. Move over Houdini you are being replaced .Keep spinning your magic. The world needs more of this.
[Stan C, USA]

Just read the 95th set of jokes and they get better all the time. Keep them coming. Laughter is  music for the soul.
[Jeanette, USA]

Today my wife called me at the office. She was suffering a panic attack and begged me to tell her some jokes to bring her out of it. I did a google search for Jewish jokes and found your website. I read several of the jokes and actually got her laughing! It really helped. Thanks so much.
[Jim B, NJ, USA]

Here we are all sick with winter colds so your jokes are very welcome. Thanks
[Cheryl R, Cape Town, SA]

Hi David, I’ve enjoyed reading the jokes on your site for a while now.  I am not Jewish but had a few Jewish friends when I lived in Salford.  Keep up the good work!
[Tony L, UK]

Teh-heh, titter titter, ha ha, guffwrr giggle giggle...luv to laugh. Ta muchly.
[Yaqirah, USA]

A short note from a non-Jew to say how much pleasure I have got from your web-page. My first introduction to Jewish humour was over 40 years ago when I was visiting some Jewish friends and an East-End Londoner called Solly came round. He had played a part in the battle of Cable Street demonstrating against Moseley, and he was able to tell one joke after another without a pause, seemingly for hours on end. I was so convinced by this experience that you had to be Jewish to do this that years later I firmly believed that Bob Monkhouse must be Jewish because he shared this ability (apparently he's not!).
An Israeli friend tells me that her father used to say that the joke is the only genuinely Jewish weapon. It is something for you to be proud of how little hatred there is in these jokes.
[Jeremy H, Norway]

Thanks Again David, Always excited to see more jokes! In this day & age we can all use the laughs! Keep Well.
[April, Florida, USA]

Hi David: MAZEL TOV on your 94th set. I laughed my tuches off on most of them. Van Gough was a great artist and you also are a great artist in your own fashion.
[Stan C, USA]

Thanks again for bringing laughter to us
[Cheryl R, Cape Town, SA]

Hello David.  My wife & I enjoy enormously your website.  Best regards
[Leslie T]

Hi David.  What a great service you give us!  Go for the century!
[Ron V, UK]

Ha ha ha.    Thank you for some good laughs
[GLC, UK]

Mazel Tov on the 90th set of Jewish jokes! I don't know where they are coming from! But that's okay! So keep sending these sets of jokes! The 100th set can't be far away!
[Richard K, New York, USA]

Thanks David; this one (90th set) really gave me a laugh; Win the Day!
[Dave M, USA]

David, another great batch as usual. Thank you, I needed that!
[The IrRev, Kansas, USA]

Dear David, Thanks for the latest set of jokes.  Just wanted to tell you how much my father enjoyed the copy of 'The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes' I'd ordered for him through Amazon.
[Judy S, Aosta, Italy]

Great site - it's the best!
[Yvonne B, UK]

Thanks David. I can always count on you to come through with humor the best medicine
[Dave M, USA]

David, another tour de' force collection (89th set). I think this is one of the best. I couldn't stop laughing after the first one and almost did not read the rest. That first joke is one of the best I have heard for a while. Keep up the good work. However, I have to wonder if that one did not belong in your naughtier section. Either way it is great! Thank you and mazeltov.
[The IrRev, Kansas, USA]

David, There is no better way to get through the winter then warm up with these incredible jokes!  I have shown your website to quite a few people and have not gotten any threatening emails or letters yet! Every time I tell one of these jokes to a crowd of people, they give me the clap!
[Richard K, New York, USA]

Congratulations on the 88th set of Jewish Jokes. It's beginning to dawn on me that the sets of jokes will just keeping coming and coming. Why? Because we Jews have the best sense of humor and are among the most creative.  We can turn almost anything into a laugh. This also shows a heightened sense of self-reflexivity and intelligence.
[Richard K, New York, USA]

Congratulations on the rousing success of your book - I told you it was funny!
[Herb G, Washington D.C., USA]

Greetings David. I saw your site after Googling the words 'Jewish Jokes' on the internet. Wonderful website, with so many good jokes that I have never heard of. My social life is assured for the next twenty years.    More power to your pen.
[Martin B, Johannesburg, S Africa]

Dear David, I have lost the citation to a joke and wondered if it was on your site (which I adore!) where I first read it about a year ago. Cheers and keep up the good work.
[Andrew B, Australia]

David.  A superb site. Allegedly, according to my zaydeh (see its catching!) being from Jewish extraction, having come over with the Huguenots, but leaving the faith, I have always had a love of Jewish Humour.
[Ron V, UK]

David,  Thank you for the jokes - some of them are versions of ones I have been telling for years and others are completely brand spanking new.  Keep them coming, they are fabulous!
[Peter G, Australia]

Shalom   Outstanding humour cleverly compiled. I salute you.
[Tom G]

I was looking for Yiddish jokes on the Web, found some specialized Websites and eventually found yours which is, according to me, far better than the others ;-) and also more practical to browse.
[Franck F, Paris, France]

David, Excellent batch of jokes! "What - you didn't like the other ones!?" (Hebonic response - I learn quickly!)
[The IrRev JSB, Kingman, Kansas, USA]

Shalom, Thank you so much for your jokes, all 84 sets were a pleasure to read. It must have you taken ages to compile all these jokes - what a great page! Of course some of the jokes simply don’t work retelling them in German, and my all-time-favourite joke is not funny in English either.  But as you’ve learned your Yiddish, you might understand it without footnotes.

Moishe and Ben are visiting an exhibition of modern art. They are fascinated by a picture showing whatever.
Ben claims: “This is a portrait!”
Moishe: “Definitely not! It’s a landscape.”
They are starting arguing whether it was a portrait or a landscape, when they finally look at the title of the picture, “Mandelbaum an der Riviera” *
Ben: “Nu, I'm right. It’s a portrait.”
* Almond tree at the Riviera
Mandelbaum:  Jewish Surname

Hi David   My son was married last week ( oh how time flies) my speech was a huge hit thanks to your jokes and I sang a song at the end, a rewritten  version of  the Irish ballad “Danny Boy” Thank you so much.
[Roy, Australia]

Hi David, Been wading through your website over the past few days. Brilliant. Lots of jokes I already knew but much better presentation. Also lots of very good new stuff. Keep it up.      I live in Kent. Neither Jewish, nor do I follow any other religion. I think Jewish people have a way of telling jokes that's hard to beat. How long have you been working on the site? What gave you the inspiration to do it?  How well is it received by the Jewish community? Do you get much other feedback?  Best regards
[Brian C, Kent, UK]

David, That's Great news (re Quill nomination).  I have that book, and I love it.  I had purchased it a while back, read it, shared it with many others, even bought one for my mother.  It truly is a wonderful book.  The award is well deserved!
[April, Florida, USA]

Your fabulous wunnnnnnerful, mechiyehdicken book "OY" is such ah treasure of pleasure. The joy of turning a page & laffing uncontrollably & then retelling the 24 carat gold schtick to others just makes my goal in life that much sweeter. Thanks to you David for the great joy you've brought into my life & enabling me to enjoy your great efforts & sharing it with others.
[Norm K, Michigan, USA]

David. I enjoyed reading about you in the JC yesterday. It's always reassuring to learn of others who refuse to take life too seriously and who can find humour in almost everything. Mazeltov to you.
PS.  I nearly wee'd myself 4 times today with your RESTAURANT (though you cheated: I don't believe for 1 minute that guy's name was 'Isaac'!) and RABBI jokes.
[Bernard S, UK]

Oh well done – you bring a lot of pleasure to a lot of people.
[Adele T, Northampton, UK]

Mazeltov for the nimination of the Quill Book Award 2007.  This is definitely a feather in your cap!  Quill -- feather, get it?   I can vouch for your title, but I'm not so sure about the other four nominations in the Humor category!
[Richard K, USA]

Always a ray of sunshine...thank you.
[Cliff L]

Hi, thanks a million - you do a fantastic job: it makes life worth living. Cheers,
[Ron L, UK]

Mazeltov on the 82nd set of Jewish Jokes!  Each of these jokes is a gem. And, as I am known on the Upper West Side as being somewhat of an obnoxious joker, I can't thank you enough for all of the new venereal, I mean, material!
[Richard K, USA]

David, Thank you, and yes I have seen them both on your site. I find it amazing that humor seems to be such a common bond between people.
[The IrRev JSB, Kingman, Kansas, USA]

My dear David, some of your current set of jokes (#82) made me laugh out loud. Thanks for keeping me entertained. Fondest regards,
[Judy S, Aosta, Italy]

Hi, thanks a million - you do a fantastic job: it makes life worth living. Cheers
[Ron L, UK]

Thanks David, I hope you enjoy it (the poem) as much as I enjoy your site. Feel free to pass it along.
[Austin L, Philadelphia, USA]

Hi David, I need to make a 60th birthday toast next Saturday. Do you have any updated material on this I could use? Thanks and best regards.           Thanks David, I managed thanks to you a very good toast to my friend. Many many thanks. Cheers Adrian
[Adrian L, New Zealand]

Hi. Thanks for your great service to the humour-loving public - your site is pure joy.  Regards
[Ron L, UK]

Re 9th set of naughtier Jewish jokes, XXX#176: Haha!!! Good one! I can’t look my (Jewish) dentist in the eye anymore!
[Rifki, Edgware, UK]

Hi David!  Thanks so much, I have shared your marvellous site with a dear friend at work, he just loves it.  Do you do a stand up routine? I would love to hear your delivery on some of those jokes (maybe I'll get to see you someday on BBC America on some comedy special...)        Thanks for the notice on the 9th set of jokes.  It makes my day when I get the new joke sets.  Thanks so very much
[April, Florida, USA]

Sometime ago I googled the name of a collegue. I found her name on the site of a Jewish Community. It had also a few jokes from your site on it. ( it is liberal community)  This way I found your website. I like the jokes very much.     I read your article on Boris Tomashefsky at the website awordinyoureye. The joke with the woman and the baker reminded me of a line in a movie. The movie is To live and die in L.A. (1985) and is written by Gerald Petievich (novel and screenplay) and William Friedkin (screenplay).  I found the quote on IMBD.com.

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Ruth Lanier: How much do I get for the information I gave you on Waxman?
Richard Chance: No arrest, no money.
Ruth: It's my fault he's dead? It took me six months to get next to him. I got expenses, you know.
Richard: Guess what? Uncle Sam don't give a sh*t about your expenses. You want bread, f**k a baker.
Ruth asked her question after a sexual encounter with Richard.

Hi David. At my age I have a great deal of time to lay and think. Having read your book once, cover to cover, I am now reading each category from the last to the first. I can see I missed a lot of laughs the first time going through. If the good Lord ever came out with a book of humour any better than yours, he kept it for himself.
[Stan C, USA]

If there exists a better collection of Jewish jokes in print or on the web, I have never seen it... your site is a veritable borscht belt in cyberspace.
[Scott W, Boston, MA]

Your Jokes are ALL the best
[Aubrey, Brighton, UK]

Thanks for the update and continued good luck with your repertoire of jokes. I just looked at one of the naughtier ones on your web site and the first one  I read made me laugh out loud - "for your cough!!!"    What a gold mine!  As Jimmy Durante might have said in reference to your collection, "You've  got a million of 'em!"   By the way, because your joke collection is so voluminous and "laugh-out-loud" funny, do you know why you or your works have not been publicized in the mass media, especially talk shows and comedy shows?    Some of the jokes are really some of the funniest I have ever heard or read and I just can't understand why you are not known about.   Have a good one!
[Herb G, Washington D.C., USA]

Dear David, Mazel Tov and Congrats on the 79th set of Jewish Jokes!  I am quite impressed that your inquiry for a joke about Thomashevsky received so many replies so quickly!  This shows another aspect concerning your Jewish Jokes website.  It is a useful research tool for finding different versions of Jewish Jokes, as well as finding a joke that someone has vaguely remembered from childhood, or for someone who is looking for a Jewish joke on a particular topic.   Thanks again for this very rich archive and tool!.
[Richard K, USA]

I am a gentile and I found your book hilarious and also edifying; I'm sure many other gentiles will tell you the same - the Jewish glossary is a godsend and has helped me expand my Jewish vocabulary (why is "maven", one of my favorites, omitted?)    Bottom line, Mel Brooks is your proof your book is a prize winner - I've found that your best friends will endorse whatever deserves endorsement and will avoid any involvement if not, so you have a winner!  I have to be honest and say at least 5 of the jokes were among the funniest I've ever read or heard and I literally choked with laughter when I read the punch lines - that's hard to do, because I am a comedy connoisseur and I only laugh out loud when a joke is a prize winner, and you had a goodly number in your book. So, in a nutshell, and I hate to tell you this, OY! should make you and your web site so popular, you're going to have to expand your staff to contend with the feedback the public will bestow upon you - mark my works on that!  Steve Allen's "This Could be the Start of Something Big" is what you can expect from your venture and I just hope you'll be able to handle all the feedback from the public. Thanks for responding and have a good one!
[Herb G, Washington D.C., USA]

And I'm still laughing out loud at OY!    Mel Brooks should have said "many times" when he plugged your book with his comment of laughing out loud, because he had to laugh out loud more than once, like I did!   Some of the laugh-out-loud jokes were so funny, I actually had to put the book down to recover - those were the very hilarious ones, and many of the others were not far behind!
I posted 5 stars as the review on Amazon, but, because I had a library copy of your book, I could not post a review.  I will alert others to the book and your web site, especially seniors, because seniors, Jewish and non-Jewish, should have no trouble identifying with many of the jokes.  Keep up the good work and I hope more of the public finds out about your laugh-out-loud gold mine! Good luck and have a good day!
[Herb G, Washington D.C., USA]

Dear David, Thank you very very much!!!!! They are fabulous…I even think his great grand mother (who is the biggest joke teller of the family) will be surprised that she hasn’t heard most of these!! I definitely won’t pass them on to anyone else.  I really appreciate your help, thanks kindly,         Where can I find some good jokes that are appropriate for a Barmitzvah boy to tell at his Barmitzvah??? Everyone is our family are big joke tellers and we can’t find many they all haven’t heard. If you can give me some ideas that would be wonderful.  Thanks a million
[Justine S, Claremont, West Australia]

David. I’m looking for the joke that is the parody-list of kosher foods from paskin de-rabbanan (baskin robbins) ice cream store …like "arba kan-float" and "mee ka-mocha". The list was about 10 - 20 items long.  Have you seen it and is it on your website?   Thanks
[Larry A, Seattle, WA, USA]

Hi David. Just spent an hour browsing your excellent site and comments from other contributors and viewers.  As a 60+ person with no particular faith, but who admires the truly Jewish style of humour, I have however seen many variants of some of your jokes "doing the rounds" in various nationalities or religions now for over 30 years or so.  Perhaps you might consider reclassifying your sections into can only be Jewish jokes and international  jokes i.e. it doesn't matter who the participants are, they are just extremely funny jokes.
[Peter J, Milton Keynes, UK]

Hi, I am trying to help a friend find a good joke for a Bar Mitzvah...  any suggestions?         THANKS!!  I appreciate your taking time to help out like this!   I am not a Jew myself so some of these go over my head.  I will write you again when I have read them all, but I wanted to write back to thank you for your help!
The Bar Mitzvah is next weekend this is very greatly appreciated!
[Jim, New Hampshire, USA]

Dear David  Thank you for your patience.....I got it and really like it.  I also got your latest version.  With much appreciation.  I really appreciate good humor and the idea of your website.  Thanks and Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. I do not have any jokes, but I do have a very good sense of humor.
[Jackie C, Florida, USA]

Hi. We have a Jewish newsletter for our synagogue in London. It is for the Children and we occasionally need some kid friendly jokes for the newsletter.  Can we get them from your website please?  We do not sell this newsletter as it is for the synagogue youth service! Our shul is in Finchley. We help run the Sephardi Youth Service and of course write the newsletter.      I will send you a copy of it soon.
[Melanie A, London, UK]

Love your site...what a collection--OY!    I was hoping you could help me find a Jewish humorous poem. Every New Year's Eve a bunch of get together and are required to bring a poem. Do you have any to share?? Funny is good for the soul.    Hag Samaach,
[Jane J, Buffalo, NY]

Hi David, I hope you can help me. It's my 60th birthday next week and my family are putting on a big party for me. During my speech, I would like to tell a really good joke that relates to my age etc. Can you please help?          Many thanks for the jokes. You have done a fantastic job for me. The ones I like the best are numbers 602, 909, 1029, 1248, 1352 and 1566, and will use these through the night. Thanks also for the bits and pieces for my speech. Wish you a very happy Hanukah. Thanks again
[Adrian L, New Zealand]

David, Thanks to your "Oy" book. Got it for a gift. Your book is the best medicine - I’ll outlive myself! Can't stop laffing!  Schtick from the book, which I use every day, is just  ‘ahhhhhhh  mechiyeh!’        How did u come to get into comedy, with such a cache of great jewish schtick? I’ve read other jewish funny schtick, but only 3 of 15 were actually funny! Your "Oy" book was absolutely hysterical. Great quality, consistently. You're the  greatest.
[Norm K, Michigan, USA]

Thank you for all this stuff but why no searching tool???  Here’s a little joke:
My wife says to me, “What’s happened to you? Why are you still in your pyjamas in the afternoon?  Are you depressed?”    “Oh no,” I reply, “I’m not depressed. When I’m really depressed, I want you to make love to me. Today, I just want to read jokes from awordinyoureye.com”
[David R, Versailles, France]

Dear David, Mazeltov on your OY! book. Every joke is 24 carat gold. Your machiyehdicken, wonderful, fabulous, phenomenal, terrific, out of this world, funyeh, book is very rare! I'm starving for funny, funny material. Yours is the 1st & only funny book, where every funny, bar none, is hysterically funny. Others I've read 1 out of 8 is funny. I'll be a young 80 in the body & 18 in the mind. I love to make people smile & laugh. Your book has helped me make that dream a reality. Bless you. I'd love to have an autographed copy of your book. Thank you for the OY! book. Good health to you. Lachiyam.               I really  loved  your book. NON-STOP LAUGHTER. Thank you for your comical & talented genious ability!
P.S My wife & I were married for 49 yrs. She passed away 3 yrs ago. I'm dedicating the rest of my life to making people smile /laff.
[Norm K, Michigan, USA]

Dear David, Many thanks for the new set of jokes. I think the least I can do is to acknowledge the pleasure your site gives me. They really made me smile, and, believe me, I needed cheering up this morning. Fond regards to you from the Italian Alps.
[Judy S, Aosta, Italy]

Hello David. Love the site - have been reading it for quite a while now & the sheer volume is amazing.  I hope you will continue to add to the website.
[David S, UK]

I’m looking for the joke about building 2 synagogues on an island.      Would you mind sending it to me please. I need it for a presentation that I am typing.     Thanks so much. The first one is the exact one I was looking for. You have done a good mitzvah!!!
[Ros C, South Africa]

I can see your book is doing very well here in States. Anybody that hasn't purchased your book yet has no way of knowing what they are missing. They don't realize that it will pay them back tenfold in mirth, merriment, and memories. This is one book that will be kept and handed down in the family for years to come.
[Stan C, USA]

Hi David, A while ago I sent you a note about a joke I found duplicated in your huge and fantastic website.  I've spent the last ... oh, year or so ... occasionally reading your jokes when I needed a break at work (fantastic break material), and as I did so, I jotted down whenever I found duplicates in various places, or other comments / suggestions.  So, I am sending you the whole schmere right now.  Thanks so much, by the way, for making this wonderful website!  It's great. All the best, and again, thanks
[Dan]

While the whole world is absolutely meshuggah these days, you with your new set of Jewish jokes are an island of sanity in this insane world!  I really mean it!
[Richard K, USA]

I edit a newsletter for our local branch of the NCT (national childbirth trust - a charity). Is it ok to include one of your jokes (What a Day from the 61st Set)? The newsletter is not sold and is circulated to members only.   Many thanks.
[Adrienne, UK]

David, I continue to enjoy your website and enjoy the jokes very much. They make a great resource for my sermons! Thank again.
[Reverend B, Kansas, USA]

David: Please keep em' coming!  ….. laughter is the pinnacle of life.  G-d gave us the ability to laugh, & for unknown reasons, that laughter is much more healthier than medications at large…..  If there is no laughter, there is no life!    Keep smiling!
[Danny S, New York, USA]

David. I appreciate your mitzva of adding some laughter to the world. Regards
[Hilary A, Melbourne, Australia]

Dear David  Just wanted to thank you for your very entertaining site. Fond regards.
[Judith S, Aosta, Italy]

Shalom, Brother David!  A fellow told his doctor that he’d never felt better in his life — “ ... and I think that it’s time that I do.”   I just got your book Oy! and look forward to many pleasant hours with it. If I survive it, I’ll get the other one, too.
[Ken H, USA]

Just love your website. The Jewish jokes are fabulous. The non-Jewish jokes don't take a back seat. Keep it going!! Very enjoyable. We need laughter.
[Sandy J, Florida, USA]

Hi David, fabulous, I am laughing hysterically.
[Lorena B, IL, USA]

Miracle Petrol!!!    LOL, that one is super!
[April, Florida, USA]

Dear  David,  I just stumbled across awordinyoureye.com whilst looking for some funny videos and was very impressed with your website. Once again congratulations with your website – It’s nice to see a site which has obviously had time and effort put into it - There's so much rubbish on the net these days as you'll no doubt agree??
[Barry B]

Hi David, Having over the past few years read all 74 sets of Jewish jokes, I feel I can safely say that on your 74th set you really excelled. It is beyond any doubt the best set you ever put out, in my opinion. I have only one question. How in the world would you ever top that one?
[Stan C, USA]

Reading "Oy" and enjoying it a lot.  Quick question---in all of your archives, do you have the one about the doting Jewish grandma and her sickly grandson?  Punchline:  "Oh, he can walk, but thanks God, he doesn't have to."  Just checking.  A very, very funny book.  Kudos.
[Allen L, Florida, USA]

Hi David, I think it's time to claim my bragging rights to have been the first person in the USA to have received your book, The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes, when it went into production in London, England. I also bought 4 extra copies to donate 3 of them to the Manlius Library in N.Y. That also gives me the bragging rights for putting them in the first place in the whole country for public viewing. I guess you could call it my 15 minutes of fame. Best regards
[Stan (the man) Cohen, USA]

Dear David, Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov and Mazel Tov! We need more laughs instead of guns and war. So thanks for the high calibre laughs!
[Richard K, USA]

Dear David, you are amazing, I just looked at 73rd and did not realise it went on forever but I have to say they did make me laugh so keep up the good work and make the whole world laugh and perhaps you can be the one to stop all the wars going on at the moment.
[Freda D, London, UK]

David, Another great round of jokes, blessings for your work in providing humor for all us! - and for the sermon aid for finding great stories. Peace.
[Reverend B, Kansas, USA]

David, Thank you for the update. I read a couple of pages a day and pass them along to other appreciative folks. As a storyteller, involved with the Folklore Society for many years, I've always enjoyed humorous tales and those that teach us to use our wits to survive.                      I've often wondered who writes these... Where do they come from? They are always anonymous, yet offer these wonderful little vignettes of life as they tell so very much about the nature of being human.                      I have a friend, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, who has been taking trips to Afghanistan for the sole purpose of collecting jokes and teaching the children there to juggle. Just trying to bring a little joy to their war-torn home. Last I heard, he was invited to bring his troupe of Afghani jugglers to tour Japan, although politics promised to interfere with the plan. He remains undaunted and says he will find a way. Music and humor are two of the greatest peacemakers we have.       I am thankful for the notes that you include (usually in parenthesis) for other folks to understand the meaning of some Jewish traditions (and thus, the gist of the joke!).
[John O, Olyphant, Pa, USA      T h e r e  i s   n o   w a y   t o   p e a c e       P e a c e   i s   t h e   w a y ]

Thank you for your wonderful website.
[Bert F, Amsterdam]

Dear David, I have contributed one or two to yr collection & you have emailed.   It seems to me that many non-Jewish jokes could be labelled Jewish with a switch of names/ locations: what is yr policy?   Recently I had a great evening in the theatre with Lionel Blue.
I and family/ friends GREATLY enjoy yr book - the best collection anywhere.  Keep up the good work!!!   Best regards
[Ron L, UK]

David, I've been enjoying the collection of Jewish humor that you provide on the internet and wish to thank you for your efforts.        Having heard a variation of joke #922 (it was in a pizza parlor) the first line of the swami should be, "Make me one with everything!"         Best wishes
[John O, Olyphant, Pa, USA]

Dear David, I love your web site. I love humour of all kinds. And being a Presbyterian Minister (in Kingman Kansas outside of Wichita), all the rabbi jokes with a few minor changes make great Presbyterian Minister Jokes! Sometimes at our Presbytery meetings I believe we have given new life to the Pharisees.       Through your web site (and after having 4 years of German in my schooling) I am beginning to learn a few yiddish words (Isaac Asimov's book on telling jokes also helps!) However, I occasionally find words that are not in your glossary. Otherwise your glossary is very helpful.  Keep up the good work, and thank you for many laughs.
P.S. This summer I am preaching a series called Bad Boys of the Bible (last year I did Bad Girls of the Bible). Both series are mostly Old Testament Characters - they are much more interesting than the New Testament characters (with a few exceptions). Your web site gave me a number of Adam jokes I could use in my sermon. Thanks again.
[Reverend B, Kingman, USA]

Greetings David, Love your site, it brings tears to my eyes. Eat well.
[Yaqirah, USA]

Hello David.   A big Thank You for your excellent site.  It has brought me many hours of great pleasure and has helped me bring pleasure to others.  Telling jokes to family, friends and strangers is one of my hobbies.       Thanks again for your wonderful site.  It's very nicely presented. Always gives me a lift - and a story to tell at my hosts' Shabbos tables.
[Laurence F, Manchester, UK]

I'm thoroughly enjoying myself, occasionally reading a "set" whenever I need a pick-me-up.   Thank you so much for doing this!
[Dan D, New York, USA]

I was doing some research on British Jewry, found somethingjewish web site and found your link. My grandfather (Mom's side) was a British Jew, so much of the terms are familiar to me.    Most of the jokes make me roar with laughter, Thanks for that.
[April, Florida, USA]

David, I love your jokes.  Where do you get them?  I have enclosed 2 poems I wrote which you may like (Kombucha is fermented green tea which is feted as champagne in health food shops and women’s centres). I have an autistic spectrum disorder and I recite my mad poetry in public.         Regarding the poems that I write, due to my autism I get preconscious streaming of words in rhythm.    Fortunately from where it comes has a sense of humour.  There is nothing like making people laugh.  I so agree with your philosophy.  Physically it is an aerobic exercise improving circulation to your brain which buzzes on the raise in endorphin levels that is also caused with laughing.  Unfortunately I don't have much conscious imaginative ability - so I can't write jokes.  Hey I can tell stories in rhyme but I'm hopeless without the boundaries of rhythm.           The comic poetry act is a new idea. I've been playing support to autistic authors who are on tour.  But at these I've been singing as well.  I had it now suggested to me that I should do comedy clubs.  My brains been spewing out comic verse for years but I have only recently been tempted to take it into the public arena. However I'm a poet who's not really one for poetry clubs. It was wonderful to discover that I could make people laugh.  I have a plan to get together a book of poems with CD so they get the performance as well.  Cheers
Now to read some more (of your jokes) tee hee
[Phlippa]

Asher The Flasher
Asher The Flasher Old Testament basher
Was partial to eating the odd bacon rasher
And when it came round each year to Yom Kippur
He cried out to God he’d be naughty no more
Dear God I regret I committed a thrill
So if I sin more do with me what you will
Saturday mornings McDonalds in Childwall
Asher the Flasher still spending a windfall
Two breakfast specials and milk shakes to go
Then he’s off to the Shul where he puts on a show
 Hava Nagila Shalom Alechem
Firmly convincing that he’s one of them
Then God he grew angry with Asher The Flasher
For being a naughty Old Testament Basher
So when he indulged the next time he was famished
Asher discovered his bollox had vanished.

Kombucha Man
Arthur the Kombucha Man
fermented green tea in a pan
until into the vat
fell a flea –ridden cat
which wasn’t quite part of the plan

‘Oh, no-one will notice!’ he cried
and to all of his clients he lied
‘This flavour sensation will conquer the nation
I’m sure you’ll be well satisfied!’

And it turned out that Arthur was right
as the ladies all gushed with delight
As happy can be
with the new recipe
and they wanted some more overnight

‘Oh, Arthur, the taste is sublime
Let us in on the secret sometime
Do we detect a smack of aph-ro-dis-i-ac
To conceal it would be such a crime!’

‘Oh, Arthur, dear Kombucha Man
What secret was put in the pan
to make us so frisky?
Did you add some whisky?
We want more as soon as you can!’

‘Oh find me a flea-ridden cat
I would pay a kings ransom for that
What on earth can I do
to produce the same brew
‘cos I can’t pull it out of a hat?’

‘Oh, sod it, it’s not going to harm them
and it won’t do no good to alarm them
with a wink and a smile
they’ll forget in a while
as I use my charisma to charm them

So, instead of the scheme backing fire
Now Arthur faced wanton desire
They were after his brew
and an extra or two
Just when he was going to retire

And Arthur still brews to this day
as his ladies continue to say
‘I’m a really big fan
of the Kombucha Man
He’s the ‘Oomph’ in my work rest and play!’

Good Morning, David!  Just thought I'd acknowledge your 70th edition of your ongoing works of delightful (as well as witty) material! I take this time, now to wish you & yours a Happy, Healthy & Enjoyable Kosher Pesach (Passover).          Keep up the great work
[Danny S]

Dear David,    I just flew in from Bowling Green Ohio, boy! are my arms tired!   But seriously folks, I was away for a few days and was presently surprised to see your 70th set of Jewish Jokes.  Surely, the 100th set is not too far away!      Keep up the good work. The world needs more laughs!    Cordially,
[Richard K, USA]

Hi David,   Wow!  You did it again. You really made my day with that one where the lady says, "Gay Kakken en yum" that was my mothers, may she rest in peace, favorite saying to us three kids growing up. It brought back a lot of fond memories. I can now remember she also said, "go in the middle of the street and scratch your tuches with a broken bottle." Ah, for the good old days.
[Stan C. USA]

Dear David,   My speciality subject is Italian literature and social history - remember the first time I wrote you, about your Italian-Jewish fellow in the joke to name Levi, not Levy?    My subject (a study of the Italian emigrant workers' association founded by Carlo Levi) led to study of the Jewish writers of Turin, such as Primo Levi, Carlo Levi, Leone and Natalia Ginzburg...      I'm a translator, so I'm good at researching "odd bits".    Ciao
[Maria L]

I’m from Canada and have been going to your site for quite some time. I love the Jewish frame of mind and these jokes bring it out in force without being condescending. Keep up the good work. I anticipate any new addition to your site.
[Charles C, Canada]

Dear David    The 69th!  This is fantastic!  You surely have the most complete set of Jewish jokes in the world!  This is becoming an archive.  If Milton Berle, the thief of bad gag, were still alive, I'm sure he'd be constantly on this site for "new material."
[Richard K, USA]

Hi David   Today was one of my bad downs and lo & behold I got your 69th set of Jewish jokes. As I started reading them I started giggling at most of them. When I finished them I looked out the window looking at the sun shining on the snow and I have to admit that jokes ARE for laughter and laughter like the sun will brighten your day. It did for me. Don't ever think of stopping.
[Stan C, USA]

Fabulous site!!!!!!!!!!!  Desperate need of some Purim jokes about latkes vs hamentaschen.  Didn't notice/find a "search" link on your site.
[Paul, Orlando, Florida, USA]

Hi, I wanted to say how much I enjoy your website.
[Stuart B, Ilford, Essex, UK]

Loved your site. Found a typo in the ANNOUNCEMENT, though..."You ban buy my book..."
[V, New Jersey, USA]

Hi.  I am Gentile, 68, from London, have lived in Durham, England, for the last 41 yrs (someone has to).  Have read your book – absolutely fabulous!!  The best!!  My son gave me your book for Xmas: every morning I read a few jokes to my wife, so that we start the day happy, and most evenings before bedtime I read another few, so that we go to sleep happy.  She has an affinity with them, trying to guess the thrust of the endings. Your website is priceless.          Recently attended an evening with Lionel Blue - hilarious.  Some of his are amazing, but not in your book. Love Jewish jokes (do you know Larry Wilde's "The Last Official Jewish Joke Book", Bantam, 1986?: I assume you know all of Lionel Blue's books): the best bit is that normally you just don't see the punchline coming - it's gloriously tangental.  The best ones, I feel, combine tragedy and comedy perfectly.        Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to. Regards.
[Ron L, UK]

Hello David    I like your site especially the diabetes joke, 'I'm tired and thirsty' #323 which I found when searching Google for a diabetes joke. By the way, I think too that 'laughter really is the best medicine'.  All the Best
[Peter F]

Hey there.   I have just been checking out your web site and think its fantastic!    It has some cool content…..I liked your site so much…….
[Jason]

I first off want to tell you that your jokes are hilarious and it's an awesome web site.  Keep it up!  You bring joy to so many!  I am 20 and I live in West Hempstead, NY.  I like jokes that are clean enough to say so I looked on Google and your website popped up.  Chag Sameach.
[J, New York, USA]

Dear David, Mazeltov Again!! Keep these coming, we need these desperately!  Cordially, or cornily, Richard
[Richard K, NY, USA]

Dear David.  Shalom from a 1/2 Jew in St. Petersburg, FL. Love your jokes. Shared them with a Sephardic friend at work. I told her about the somethingjewish web site (where I found your link.)   It was interesting because she told me she did not associate the British to anything Yiddish, but I reminded her that there are many British Jews, Disraeli, many celebrities and my maternal grandad for one. Thanks so very much for all the wonderful laughs and memories.  Shalom
[April. Florida, USA]

Hi David   Just thought you would like to know that the Manlius Library told me that your new book "The Ultimate book of Jewish Jokes" is now one of their faster moving books and they started a waiting list for the 3 copies they have.   Kindest regards.
[Stan C, USA]

(Re 63rd set of jokes)  Mazeltov again! This is fantastic, and in these absolutely tragic times, we have to have a laugh.   So the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine. Things could be worse, they could be happening to me!  Cordially
[Richard K, NY, USA]

I was reading your book in bed last night - so many gems there (particularly about wives and marriage). Kind regards
[Patrick A, London, UK]

Just to let you know I bought your book. Great read. Keep up the good work. Miss your dad's Vienna's, they were part of my regular diet.
[Ray H, London, UK]

They [the jokes] are great - can I use them in our shul magazine that is only sent to members?
[Peter B, Northwood, UK]

Thank you for the jokes: we all laughed like heck, even the gentiles.  I am moving this week, so please keep me on your list but send emails to this address:
[CDD, New York, USA]

Hello David. Thanks for the jokes page. Even though I am not Jewish I thoroughly enjoy the jokes and I am so pleased that the Jewish community can make so many jokes about themselves.         You are correct in what you are saying, that different jokes appeal to different people. There is a chap at work whose Christian mother brought him up in her faith and his father was Jewish. He is obsessed with humour. His sense of humour has no limits. He can tell jokes that I would never dream of telling.         About myself. I was born in India. I came to England with my parents when I was three. I had all of my schooling in England and have been here ever since.   I know that Judaism and its daughter religions do not believe in reincarnation but in India (even amongst Muslims and other minorities) it is an accepted fact. Although I cannot prove it I am convinced that I was killed in the holocaust. During my school days in the 1970s I could never watch “Escape from Colditz”. Even when I watch a film like Schindler's List I feel that I have seen it all first hand. Because of this I feel very sympathetic towards Jews and Israel.    All the best for the future.
[RJ, Leicester, UK]

I saw that someone emailed you requesting a joke or humor relating to the parsha "vayigash".  Do you know of any?           Thank you so much!  My whole family and I love good jokes, and your web site is great.  (boy-12, girl-10, husband and I).  I was researching vayigash because my son is going to be Bar Mitzvahed in January 2006.  The tennis court joke is great because he is a huge tennis player.  Maybe he can try and incorporate it.  Thanks again.
[Lisa K, USA]

Hi David:  I must say we waited a long time for your 7th set of naughtier Jewish jokes to come out, but I also must say it was well worth the wait. As you say over there in England I laughed my "arse" off. Keep up the excellent work.
[Stan C, USA]

Dear David, your jokes are always welcome.   Thanks
[Sylvia S]

Mazeltov on your 7th set of naughtier jokes.  Thanks!
[Richard K, NY, USA]

You’re worth every cent! I’ll put an order in shortly (for your book). Shabbat Shalom from Down Under.
[Ron E, Australia]

Hi David: Thought you would like to know I have just loaned out your book for the 3rd time and at this moment I have two friends on my waiting list. I also tell them how to get copies to give out for Channakah. It does make a terrific gift at a very low cost.
[Stan C, USA]

G'day David: My Daughter & Son in Law (who now live here in Perth ex Austin Texas) knew that I wanted to acquire your book, so without my knowledge, she ordered it throu' Amazon as a surprise for me. She thought it would cheer me up. She was right (and so were you) it cheers you up when you read the jokes, and gets your mind off one's own problems.       I like your book, and thanks for the mention of my name...already, I have had friends contact me from London that I haven't heard of for many years.
[Ian $, Australia]

Hi David:  I'm sure you will be pleased to know that I've just received an emailed joke from a friend (a Professor at the London South Bank University) that was followed by the accreditation:
From: ‘The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes’ by Davod Minkoff, Robson Books.
Shame about the spelling of David, but nice publicity nonetheless.  Hope sales are going well.  Best wishes
[Bob, UK]

Dear David, I think your website is absolutely wonderful but I have a suggestion. Whilst scouring your website looking for jokes for my son's Barmitzvah speech, I realised how useful it would have been to have a search bar.  I was desperately searching for jokes which referred to Barmitzvah's and whilst spending many minutes laughing out loud at some of the jokes I came across, there were just too many to go through.    I hope you don't mind me making this suggestion but I feel it would really benefit your huge number of fans.
[Edwina E, Edgware, UK]

I love your web site.
[Simon C, Hendon, London, UK]

David.  Firstly, my uncle Frank directed me to your web site -- I haven't laughed so much for years, so thank you.    Secondly, have you thought of cross-indexing the jokes by subject, so that, for instance, one could just look for mother-in-law jokes?
[David S, Bishop’s Stortford, UK]

Hi David.  loved this site!!   my dad loves telling jokes and for his upcoming 85th birthday, the children and grandchildren are collaborating to make a book to honor him.  part of it will be some of his infamous jokes. thanks.
[GR, Aventura, Florida, USA]

I send my doctor (he is from South Africa) a set of your jokes every week and he in turn sends it to his Mother & Father who live in Israel...and he was telling me, his Dad looks forward to receiving them every week, as he has a great laugh in his Shul telling all these Yiddish jokes.......they certainly get all round the world eh?
[Ian $, Australia]

David.  I must congratulate you with such a variety of jokes & antidotes!  I'm not sure if you realize this, but there are those who claim that laughter truly heals what ails you.   I, for one, preach that very concept.  I love telling all sorts of jokes, from the very simple type to the truly inhumane style of humor.  I get a true value of satisfaction when I succeed in making one laugh.      Laughter plays a big part in my life.   As a matter of fact, whenever I go through my "shtick" I get a very good response, & I'm constantly asked if I'm a "stand up" comic.  I respond "yes, but most of the time I sit."
[Daniel Stein, Israel]

Hello David.  I love your site. Thank you for making me laugh.
[Maggie, Swansea, Wales]

Hello.  I just wanted to send this to say thank you for the pleasure your web site has given me.  Although I was born and brought up in the Jewish religion I have not kept it up.  My father's funeral was yesterday (an orthodox Jew) and due to family differences it was particularly distressing. I felt the need today to try and find the English words for a prayer (Shema Yisrael) that I remember learning parrot fashion as a child and in my internet search somehow I came across your site. Although it did not contain what I was looking for, the glossary brought many memories back and the jokes have lightened my heart.  I expect many people feel the same about the service you have provided but I just wanted to let you know how much this was appreciated. Thank you.
[Adele, Bucks, UK]

Hi David.    Many thanks for the many years of laughter that you have given me.  I’m not Jewish but my wife and kids are.  They belong to that group that goes by the maxim “Apples never fall far from the tree”.
[David P, Herts, UK]

David:  Just stumbled upon your website – FUNNY STUFF!   Can you direct me to a joke suitable for a Bar Mitzvah speech?  My son has completed his speech and he really NEEDS some humor!!          Thanks for taking the time to send me these.  I am sure that I will find something that works.  Your site is great!
[Terry, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA]

I enjoy your jokes very much and I appreciate your work in getting them to us.  We live in Los Angeles, California.  Except for the town and shopping malls names that are in your jokes, the humor is very much in the style that we expect Jewish jokes to be in.     Again, thank you for your jokes.
[Judy, Los Angeles, California, USA]

A treat for the weekend!  Many thanks
[George H]

Thank you for putting up this wonderful site, it has made my day. I have just had an operation and mopping around not doing much I came upon this site and what a laugh - so many jokes. I am from Tanzania (originally), grew up in London UK, lived in Switzerland/Denmark and now for the last 19 years in Vancouver/Canada.   My interest in the jokes especially Jewish jokes grew in the UK. My boss there was Jewish from Warsaw in Poland, so there was a lot of humour around where I worked and lived and I miss that. Well I thank you again and hope you keep in touch.  Nice to meet a fellow humour-filled person.
[SR, Vancouver, Canada]

I was cocking around on the computer and went to your website and read every one of the letters in your column "Extracts taken from your readers". That was equally enjoyable to me as reading your jokes. I wonder how many other people have taken the time to do the same. Thanks to you I have many less dreary days in my life now.  Warmest regards.
[Stan C, USA]

Dear David. First of all thank you so much for putting up all of those jokes on line. I'm sure it took lots of effort and I just want you to know that it is really appreciated.      I put out a weekly (free) newsletter in my shul and I wanted to know if you object if I include your jokes.   Thank you very much.
[Rabbi T, New York, USA]

I live on the west coast. When I was in camp my father sent me jokes from your site and I asked him where they were from so he bookmarked the site.
[Boruch D, West Coast, USA]

Shalom. In case you thought that chutzpah was a Jewish characteristic, here is one of my favourite examples of it, from a man who lives locally. In New Zealand, koi carp are pests. They foul waterways, eat smaller fish, grow big & fat & make nuisances of themselves. People spend a lot of time, energy and money getting rid of them. Not so a local farmer. He organises an annual event where people pay HIM to come and hunt his kois, and there are prizes for the ones who catch the most! Eager fishers/hunters flock in & pay good money to keep his koi numbers down.   Now, that's chutzpah.
PS  If you see Prince Harry, tell him he's an eejit (with my compliments) and his eejity behaviour made headline news here in NZ.
[Anna R, Huntly, New Zealand]

Shalom. Barukh atah Ha-shem, Eloykaynu, melekh ha-olam.    Thank you for a really good laugh. How nice to find jokes that are really funny and neither silly nor indecent. My only regret is that I can't forward any of them; is there any way to do this? They are too good not to share with other kindred spirits. I am from a small town in New Zealand (Huntly), and I was looking for a Jewish screensaver when I found your site. I am 1/8 Jewish and very proud of my Jewish heritage (hence the Hebrew greeting at the top of my email). There are not many Jewish people in Huntly, I know of only two and possibly a third, but they are not observant. On the 7th day of Chanukah, I was surprised to see an attractive display of seven gold candles in a window of a house in the next street: the next day there were eight. I am not sure what this means & I am only acquainted with the people to the extent of exchanging remarks about the weather, garden etc as I pass. So maybe there are four households with Jewish people in them; at 1/8 I think it would be a cheek of me to call myself Jewish! Even as a little girl I wanted to be Jewish, like the family in 'All Of A Kind Family'.         This is undoubtedly far more information than you wanted to hear from a total stranger on the other side of the world ! I tend to suffer from logorrhea on the computer.   L'chaim!
[Anna R, Huntly, New Zealand]

Dear David:  I enjoy your Jewish joke website immensely. Someone from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania who knows I like Jewish jokes sent me your website!  I have never looked at it without having a laugh!   I am originally from Chicago, but have been living in New York City for about 40 years. Despite my being of German-Jewish extraction (a yekke), I have always been fascinated with Yiddish, and Jewish humor. I once had a very big collection of Yiddish comedy records.  Also, my father gave me, when I was very young, Freud's book, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, which has a lot of Jewish jokes in it.  Being extremely interested in psychoanalysis, I also prepare bi-lingual texts of Freud, putting the Strachey English translation next to Freud's original German text, side by side.  Attached is my intro to my bi-lingual edition of Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, if you have time to read it. [CLICK HERE TO SEE INTRODUCTION]
[Richard K, New York, USA]

Just surfing, you know how it is and I just LOVE Jewish humour. It’s a brilliant site. My secret though, I may need the jokes. I don’t want any of my friends to know about the site until I’ve used the jokes. If they see the site my thunder will be stolen. PS   I’m not Jewish but I guess you need your ‘token’ WASPs.
[George H, Penistone, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK]

I work for the United Synagogue Burial Society in Ilford. Really enjoy your site. Regards
[Yvonne B, UK]

A friend of mine wishes to be on your 'mailing list'. I tried to cut and paste and forward to him but it does not work. would you mind sending another Jewish boy the treasures of  your website ?    His email is:  .
[Ophra G, London UK]

Your jokes are great.   Reading them and enjoying.  I did not know that this site exists.   Keep on writing. Thank you.
[Zehava B ]

Hi David. Firstly, I just wanted to say thanks for your site.  YOU, my dear, are outrageous! Many laughs. I also want to wish you and your family a Happy and Healthy Chanukah and 2005!! My father's mother and father were both born in London before settling in New Jersey (where I'm originally from). I am sorry, very sorry, to say that I have never been to England, and I am just dying to. We'll see if I can't make that a priority, seeing that you guys are from England, and with all the Jewish/yiddish humor, brought that up for me. So bye for now and again, thank you so much! Warm regards,
[Marla A, Baltimore, USA]

I have to do a bar mitzvah soon. I’m almost 13 and I need a good joke for my speech. Can you give me anything related to parsha vayigash within the next week, because it’s really close.
[Anon]

Just came upon your site, and I love it. Good stuff.  I'm just a typical New Jersey lawyer, who spends too much time poking around on the web.  I've been checking the same tired, old, Jewish joke sites that I bookmarked years ago. For no special reason, this week, I decided to run a new search for Jewish Jokes, just to see what sites came up.   So I Googled "Jewish Jokes", and somewhere near the top, your site appeared. I haven't delved too deeply into the site, because you have a massive amount of material. But I nosed around for half an hour, and it looks terrific.   Good luck with keeping it going.
[Barry F, New Jersey, USA]

Nice work I must say, it did give me a good giggle.  Some are hard to explain to the kids, but so much fun.  Thank you.
[Mark B, Milton Keynes, UK]

Thanks David for a great site.  We're honoring a Jewish doctor tomorrow and we're trying to find Jewish jokes about honor. It would be great if there was and index of topical jokes.    Thanks.
[Ernie R, Queensbury NY, USA]

David.  Just found your web site.  The jokes are hilarious. How can I forward them to friends without retyping them on email?  I am an amateur when it comes to using my computer.   My cousin, who recently passed away, sent me many good Jewish jokes.  Since I no longer have a source, I tried Jewish jokes by searching the internet. Yours was one of the choices.  I am very thankful that I tried your array of jokes.
[Eddie G]

Thanks David, for a great site.
[Ernest R, Queensbury, NY, USA]

David, now that you have completed your fiftieth set of jokes, shouldn't there be a celebration?  A Jubilee?  Let's call it a Jubilaugh.  Regards.
[Charles K, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA]

David, I originate from Leyton (now Waltham Forest) in east London. From an early age I have had many Jewish friends but sadly we have all moved away from each other. I have always enjoyed Jewish humour and the odd word of Yiddish language (as popularised in Yinglish) is a great medium for communicating with Jewish people in the office.     I found your site by searching the net using Jewish Jokes and was amazed at the number and scope of Jewish jokes (ones that you could tell your Bubba and those which it would be politic not to).       I have most of the Jewish Joke books, especially Henry Spalding's Encyclopaedia of Jewish Humour and American Jewish Humour. The only thing wrong with Spalding is that I feel he is an American joke gatherer/collector and has not been a stand up comedian so that his jokes can be long winded which throws the timing off when you try to tell the jokes without amendment. (By the way) my maternal grandfather was Friedrick Otto August Schubert and his family owned Schubert's Cafe in Leyton (alas no more).
[Geoff E, London, UK]

David.   You have it all down to perfection for me to compete with. You are indeed the king of humour. Move over Elizabeth he's after your crown. Regards
[Stan, USA]

Have to say I LOVE the site, and I have been rocking with laughter. I haven't read all the jokes yet.       All the best
[Nathan, UK]

Thanks for a great site.  I come back and visit every now and then and am always glad to see a new set of jokes.   Best regards,
[David S. Israel]

Hi David. I heard about you searching for Jewish Jokes in Google.   [I’m looking for] jokes for a script I'm writing.  The problem is that the main character, whose religion is irrelevant to the presentation, can't go around telling Jewish jokes, so I'm "converting" some of the jokes he might say…and also using some that may not have any religious connotation. I want you to know that I've consulted a dictionary of jokes and several books on jokes and humor from our very well stacked library and none of them has the finesse of your collection.  You should put them all together into a volume to publish.  So, congratulations, you win over all those reference books. Best wishes.
[A, Hungary]

David, I hope you don't mind - I often use a selection of your jokes in my small local congregation Newsletter. It's non profit making, and I occasionally credit your website. I use them in a manner similar to Readers' Digest, all over the Newsletter, which has a distribution of about 40. People tell me they like the jokes, and it helps to get them to read the Newsletter right through, into the stodgy stuff.    Best Regards and a Happy New Year.
[Jack J, Bognor Regis, UK]

You are doing a terrific job. Thank you very much.   Cheers
[Roy, Sydney, Australia]

If any in my club doesn't have your website in their favourites, all I can say is if the Good Lord made anything better than this, he kept it for himself.  Trust me.
[Stan, USA]

Your jokes came at a very good time. Our children left yesterday to return to Israel and it was great to be able to have a laugh. Hope you are all in good health. Keep up the good work.        Had some great laughs.
[Cheryl R, Cape Town, SA]

I found your site at a low time. I am disabled and was having a bad pain day, typed in Jewish jokes and now want to thank you. I am so much better. Everyday I read some of your jokes and have a real belly laugh. Thank you. For me, you are the moschiach.        I have been married for 36 years, have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. Our daughter and 3 grandchildren are in Israel. Thanks again for the laughter - it really is the best medicine even if you are not sick.
[Cheryl R, Cape Town, South Africa]

I'm writing a musical comedy about a ballet dancer and needed some Jewish jokes but so specific for a retired ballet dancer (my main character, who likes to tell jokes) that I didn't want to wade through all 48 plus boxes in your display. Maybe you can send me a few I might use if you have any in that category.  In exchange I am going to tell you a few Eastern European jokes you may not have in your repertoire.
[Andres B-K, Hungary]

Shalom! I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Found the site by typing in "Jewish jokes".
[Basha, Melbourne, Australia]

Hi David. I just finished reading your 46th edition of Jewish Humour. You did it again. I never imagined all that I have missed in my life, but I am sure with your help I will do a lot of catching up. I was very elated to see that I made your new set with 2 of the many I sent you. You can't win them all, but I intend to keep trying. I know what you’re doing takes up a lot of your time, but you have to know a lot of people out here love you for what you are creating.
[Stan C, USA]

Dear David, I found your website on a Google search: I'm a Jew living in Manhattan. I'm writing a screenplay and needed a funny joke for a newly wed couple, and your Millie/Maurice no sex joke cracked me up. I'd like to rework it a little to fit my screenplay, which I plan to sell or produce on my own (God willing!).  Is it OK if I use it?  Thanks for the laughs.
[Zachary T, New York, USA]

I visited your web site earlier today and I just wanted to congratulate you on a well presented, and informative web site. It's not often that I come across a web site that offers a wealth of quality and hard to find wonderful collection of Jewish jokes and  Jewish humour. I particularly liked your joke no 289 "The Prayer".
[AZ, Israel]

I found your site by looking on Google and typing in Jewish jokes under the search. It's a great site, you have really funny jokes. I enjoyed it. I'm from Brooklyn, New York. The big polluted state. Thanks for responding. Keep up the good work.
[ML, Brooklyn, New York, USA]

YES, #418 is the one I was looking for (though I think I originally heard a slightly different version - which is not surprising). I appreciate your quick reply.  I was going through the jokes page by page, and was up to set 7 - you saved me quite a bit of time!!        Your site came up on Google when I did a search for "joke man tailor new suit."    I have bookmarked your site, and plan to go through it at a more leisurely pace.  My husband and I love comedy of all types, and so I am happy to have found your joke collection.  I plan to share it with lots of friends & family!    I have lived in West Virginia for 17 years, and I am originally from Woodstock, NY, where I spent the first 25 years of my life.    Have a great day
[Amy H, West Virginia, USA]

I just found your site on the web. There are so many jokes. I live in Paris and found your website on Google when looking for Jewish jokes. Shalom and all the best.
[France P, Paris, France]

No 44...a great  laugh.......you have excelled yourself!!   Kind regards,
[Ian S, Perth, Western Australia]

I found your site as I was looking for a translation of the word ‘bubkes’. Google gave me your address. I am an artist from Germany and I’m not Jewish but rather pagan.    Anyhow I enjoyed your joke page very much. And because you’ve given me such pleasure, I’ll give you something back.  The attached file contains a cartoon I made. If you like it, you may use it for your cartoon page. Many greetings from Cologne.   NOTE: See 2nd cartoon page
[Vladi A, Cologne, Germany]

Every time I need vitamin L (laugh) I go to your site. I had a freehand project to do and this is what I made (see cartoons 3rd page).     Hope you like it and hope even more it is funny :-)
Take care
[Uriah Y, Kfar Yonah, Israel]

G'day David....We enjoy your jokes.   One of my dear friends sent me your link quite some time ago and I have been enjoying all your jokes since then. I have quite a few friends all over the world, and we keep in touch with each other with jokes!!! believe me, its a good way to keep in touch, when you don't have too much to tell each other!
[Ian S, Perth, Western Australia]

David, the best collection of Jewish jokes I have found anywhere -- including some of the books by the best Jewish comedians. I am doing a short comedy routine for our synagogue fund raiser and will have to revise it based on some of your jokes.  Thanks for sharing. I am originally from Amarillo, TX and I hope to return there by the end of May. Right now I am living in Aiken, SC.     I found your joke site by doing a search for "Jewish jokes" using Google. I needed some jokes for Shabbat, and I read a few that night, which cut down the amount of time I had to talk.
[Chester F, Amarillo, Texas, USA]

Thank you for alerting us to your new supply of jokes.  We enjoy them and share them with the family.  In fact, every week I visit a lonely gentleman who is homebound and he looks forward to the latest in Jewish humor.
[Moshe and Ruth, New York, USA]

I really enjoyed the jokes. I just finished reading through the 43 "jokes" pages, and I had a lot of laughs.      I will now be reading through the rest of the jokes.     Thanks for building this site. It makes for a lighter day.
[Austin N]

Re: your wonderful jokes.  I am new to the internet and love all your jokes. Keep up the great work.
[Howard K, Southern California, USA]

Love your site.
[Alex S]

...I drew that should be funny to anyone who remembers Myron Cohen's material, or knows the joke in set 38 about the man who (or, originally, the little girl whose mommy) found a fly in the raisin bread.  I hope you like it.
[Gordon W, Edison, NJ]

I had the pleasure of meeting you a week a go in the Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sparta restaurant. I today visited your web site that I found quiet tasteful. I enjoyed it so much that I have now passed its URL to my Jewish friend who I know has a good taste for humour.            Keep on with the good work.
[Foad N, Middlesex, UK]

You come up as first choice on Google under "Jewish jokes".  Now that is recognition!       I think that we are only slightly Jewish'ish by osmosis.  5 years spent at KGS and B&K had that effect on us.           But the compulsion to make chicken soup may be part of my wife's unclear family history. Whenever we try Friends Reunited the only other people called K… went to Jewish schools!  It probably had a more diasporic spelling originally.  We also mastered "over protective and critical" with our daughter and grand daughter, the latter is only 14 but she is already tall enough to be a Doctor.     My grandmother was the original human Sabbath time switch through much of Brondesbury.       I have always loved the way that strict religious observance is not allowed to get in the way of life and business.  As one who traded bubblegum for lox sandwiches at KGS I was impressed by the simplicity of the argument, "My mother just said I shouldn't buy it!"          Surrounding Muswell Hill with green string is another masterpiece!          Many thanks for a great site.
[Phil M, Stafford, UK]

I live in one of the 'Jewish' suburbs just outside of London in the U.K   I found your website when I was browsing recently, I entered 'Jewish Jokes' into Google and - there you were!
[Frank R, London, UK]

These were great.. thanks!   ..and how politically correct of you to switch the names of Luigi and Moshe!
[Michael W, Copenhagen, Denmark]

Wonderful stuff. Thanks.
[Rabbi R, London, UK]

Dear David, I will hold a speech for the opening of a new Synagogue in Austria. Does any joke come to your mind?
[Katinka F, Vienna - Austria]

Great site        …..you’ve been assiduous in collecting a great array, and a broad variety, of jokes. I laughed out loud at a number of them. Coming from a medical family, I particularly enjoyed the doctor lines: “I have good news and bad,” says the doctor. “The good news is that you’re not a hypochondriac.”
[Bill I, USA]

I wanted to write to you and let you know that I used some of the wording to your 'Speeches I'd like to hear' for a 60th birthday speech. It went superbly well and was easily the best speech I have ever done. I still have not told anyone that I plaguerised from your site. Well done.       I imagine the speech could go down as the best ever for me. I've certainly never made a crowd laugh like that before. Everyone I've spoken to that heard it thought it one of the best they had heard.    I searched '60th birthday speech' in google and it came up with some specialised speech writing sites which I almost paid for their services. I even went right up to check-out on 2 but stopped and kept searching and then stumbled on yours on page 2 of the search results.
[Justin B, Perth, Western Australia]

I looked on the web and found you - Yes I work in London but live in Southend, Essex - I went to JFS, JGLB and all the JC dances I could - I lived on a kibbutz for periods over three years coming back to England to get some money and then going back.
[Shirley G, Southend, UK]

Hi there, Found your website and thought it was excellent. Its a shame you don’t have anything dedicated to barmitzvah or bat mitzvah as I'm trying to write a speech for a batmitzvah or even anything teenagy...?  Thanks.
[Angela S, London, UK]

Placed your site on our favourites.  It's a good tonic when one is feeling down.
[Harvey B, Manchester, UK]

I was looking out some text which I eventually found on your site. It’s the home economics textbook (#747). Do you know where I can find more text from the same textbook or the name of it? If not, cool. Love the site. Any info you have though, throw it
[Paul C]

Hi David The latest jokes have cheered me up no end.  I'm at home, missing my dancing, whilst I get over the Flu!
[Jeff S, London]

Thank you so much for all the joy and laughter you have given me for the last few weeks.       I found awordinyoureye while searching for the legendary "camel joke" - the one about the old man who rode a camel to impress his neighbours.  Google returned many versions of the joke, but yours was the best, and the most familiar to the way I heard it the first time, back in the 60s. At that time, the man was riding up and down Collins Avenue in South Beach, which was, at that time, the premier retirement village for seniors (mostly Jewish) from New York and New Jersey.       Your web site is delightful, and I have been forwarding items from your collection to escape the Central New York State winter dreariness and to cheer up kvetchy friends. I understand that the UK isn't quite so bitter during the winter, and I envy your access to the divine city of London! It has been interesting to learn of the Jewish culture and areas of the city through your jokes.  I am sure you have access to much finer Jewish delicacies than we up here in the wilderness!
So thanks again, and I will forward any Jewish jokes I hear, although I am sure that you have heard them already.
PS  My grandfather was a Sephardic Jew from Spain - mid-19th Century.
[Catherine DD, New York, USA]

Your jokes are fabulous.  Do you live in Great Britain?  Lee and I live in Los Angeles, California.  I got to your site through Google, Totally Jewish -Chanukah. Yes I would love it if you e-mailed me for updates. Happy New Year.
[Judy, Los Angeles, USA]

Thanks a lot for brightening up my Monday am. No.100 is surely the most original.  Cheers
[Jeff, London UK]

I'm from Jacksonville, Florida, USA. My wife is from Baghdad, Iraq. She and her family were thrown out of Iraq in 1950 when she was only 1 year old. Our kids were all born in Israel.   I came to Israel in 1970 at age 33.    I found your website via Google.
[Izzy C, Israel]

Got your 39th edition and again you did another SUPER job putting more laughter in our life. I just turned 77 and what else could an old man want, but a little humour in his life now. Keep up the great work. You are bringing happiness to more people than you think.    I can tell some of my jokes I have been sending you have been useful. I shall keep on sending them and some day we'll have the whole world laughing with us.
[Stan C]

Have enjoyed your site and love Jewish jokes  --  have read most all of yours.  I have a few I don't think are there.  Would you like me to send them and will you tell me if you like them?  I was born in NYC where every 3rd person is Jewish, and though I'm a shiksa, my grandfather had a partner named Loewy in the hat manufacturing business.  It went bankrupt when men stopped wearing hats.
[Jean R, USA]

Very, very funny!!!
[unknown]

I simply conducted a GOOGLE search for Jewish Jokes and your site was one of the listings on the first page, and sounded interesting.    L'Shana Tova.
[David in Great Neck]

How do I sign up to receive Jewish jokes by email? Pls let me hear from you thanks     Found your site thru a search of Jewish jokes.
[R & M G in Coconut Creek]

I love your site.   I'm a Rabbi in London that's always looking for good jokes to use in sermons.
[Rabbi C, London, UK]

Enjoyed reading your jokes.
[David L, New York, USA]

Thanks for your help. I live in Toronto and just did a Google search on Jewish humour. I thought it might be a good way to start my speech …… at my son's bar mitzvah.    shana tova.
[Arthur F, Toronto, Canada]

Thank you David, great jokes for a wet miserable morning.
[Sylvia S]

I live in Caracas, Venezuela, and enjoy visiting your web site.    My son in Singapore recommended your web site.  I would not mind being notified by e-mail when you update your site.
[Manuel R, Caracas, Venezuela]

I wish you all the best during this holy time of year and thank you for the marvellous humour of your website.      I live in Toronto, Canada. I'm pretty sure that I found your website by Googling something like "Jewish Humour".  The reason is a bit of a ganzah megilah.  I frequently teach human rights courses and am active on a couple of human rights committees.  Someone in a class made an anti-Semitic comment which I challenged but did not feel that I disputed enough.  (I am a Gentile, alas-- probably my name suggests that.) So I did some research on the internet and bought some books on the history of anti-Semitism, and general history of Judaism and Jewish culture. I was always interested but once I began to delve more into the topic I became enthralled.  I imagine you can relate to having absorbing interests with your hobby of collecting perhaps the largest collection of Jewish jokes ever.  As I learned more--I realized that a test of that would be how many of the references in the jokes that I would get.  The humour is so droll.  Such a tradition as well (as you would know) of so many great Jewish comedians.        Of course, when most people think about "jokes" in relation to a group of people they assume or participate in derogatory ones.  Jokes by and for a group are entirely different--actually funny--from the inside. So--L'Shona Tova!  I would appreciate being informed of when your website is updated.  Thank you.
[Lesley T, Toronto, Canada]

btw, your most recent collection was excellent!  warm regards
[Hilary, Melbourne, Australia]

Hey David, those were actually funny!
[Barbara McG]

Just a short message to say "Thanks so much for your site, awordinyoureye.com".  I just had a a few minutes to spare yesterday but couldn't resist reading at least a few good ones!  And I love that you are adding new ones when you hear them. (my link is getting a little stale) I look forward to perhaps, staying in touch in the future. It's a good life,
[Dave M, Mid Atlantic Region, USA]

Thanks much.  I checked out the site and it's great! I'll add it ASAP.
[Eric M, Seattle, USA]

Thanks a bunch David, I'll enjoy perusing them this morning - start the working week with a laugh is a great idea, don't you think?
[Jeff, London]

I shared some of your jokes .... to cheer up a Jewish friend (in fact he told them again in his office in their family business. Talk about a snowball effect). We’’ve been laughing our pants off. Thanks for the entertainment.
[Ann P, Netherlands]

Great. This (34th set) is the best batch yet!   Keep them coming.
[Michael W, Creative Supervisor, Disney Character Voices International Copenhagen, Denmark]

Thank you David for the new set of jokes this morning. So good to have a laugh first thing in the morning.
[Sylvia S]

I think your site is wonderful and hysterical.  Keep up the good work.      Our 25th high school reunion is coming up and we have all been sharing our favourite jokes.  I found you on a Google search.  I have shared your site with friends, already.
[Mark R, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA]

I was looking for something on www.google.co.il and tried “Pischer”. Why? Don't ask because I don't remember and I found your treasure.         Please do add me to your list and thank you for that!
[Uriah Y, Israel]

I was born in Moscow, USSR. I am a mathematician. In the end of 1979 my family (all 3 of us) were allowed to leave.   Since May 1980, I have been in Arkansas. Since May 2003, I have been reading your jokes. Where have you been all my life?
[Boris S, Arkansas, USA]

Tayere Duvid  or as we say David hayakar.    What to do, I liked your jokes and sent the link to my friends.    I have a joke that goes 50 years ago, it is from Holland where I was born on my way to Erets Hakodesh and may be it is an unknown one.
[Uriah Y, Israel]

Hi! I promised when we met last week I would take a look. I think the site is great - very enjoyable. If I come up with more jokes or marketing ideas I'll pass them on.
[Ian C, Leeds, UK]

I needed some Jewish jokes to send to a friend who is recuperating from surgery.  I looked through lots of web pages before I found just what I was looking for.  Thank you for this wonderful and expansive collection of jokes. I am hoping that a few jokes a day will expedite his recovery.
[Marla R, Portland Oregon, USA]

I think that's a great idea your new column Dating [Kosher Humor]. I not only enjoyed the old ones I had heard but better yet the ones I haven't heard. I not only read all the jokes but even took your test, which I normally wouldn't do. It's a great fun thing to do. Keep up the great work. We needed your Web site over here. Just sorry it took me so long to hear about it.
[Stan C]

Very funny site. I found it because I was looking for a humorous passage to deliver in my blessing for my son's bar mitzvah coming up. Do you know of any poignant yet humorous passages. I don't want to deliver a joke per se but a little levity would be good after the ordeal. If you know of any sites or authors please pass them along.     Please add me to the email group. It's always nice to get a laugh once in awhile.     Thanks again for helping.
[Rich S, California, USA]

I enjoyed your site especially how many of the jokes I’m familiar with had the locations changed from Brooklyn to places in England.     I found your site after doing a search on Google for Jewish jokes.
[Neil L, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada]

Oy, I laughed and laughed at your jokes. Thank you. You have done a mitzvah.
[unknown]

What a great site. I haven't made it all the way through your amazing list of jokes yet, but here's a favorite joke of mine - my apologies in advance if you already have some variant of it posted.
[Luke P,  Enumclaw, Washington, USA]

Have enjoyed your numerous jokes on your very funny web site.    I was looking for some lines for a wedding speech and have spent most of the day reading your collection of jokes. Have finally dried my eyes from too much laughing and now able to send you this email.        Do you have any other wedding speeches?
Was not too impressed with the one and only that you posted on your site. Need to give a short but hopefully funny speech at my son’s wedding next week.  Now totally stuck! Any help would be appreciated.
PS  I am a company director age 53 - Jewish and live in North London.
[Ray H, London, UK]

Really David, thanks so much for replying to my e-mail.  I'll pass on your best wishes to the guys.  Yes, I'd love to be informed when there are new jokes posted.  I've read it's no joke - laughter really is the best medicine, and totally agree with the concept.       Many of my guys at the towers seemed to have lost the will to live, and most had tried to become hermits in their apartments, but since I began working there last June, I've tried to get them to respond to me as a friend, and not just an employee of the towers.  It has taken several months but I believe I have been successful in most cases.  One of the residents, a former mayor of Phoenix, and now an invalid who has lost speech, and is often lost in his own mind, not knowing where he is; has begun responding to the cookies I bake for him.  When his nurse wheels him out for some fresh air, he always holds his hand out to shake mine and get a cookie or two.  The nurse says it proves he still has the ability to recognise people, which his doctors had said was not possible anymore.           Anyway, many, many, thanks for the help your site has given me in my quest to energize these guys again.
[Gary S, Phoenix, AZ, USA]

Shalom. I'm a tallit weaver and wondered if you have run across any tallit jokes.        Someone recommended that I look at your site from one of the Jewish chat boards (I'm sorry, I can't remember which one).  I'll check in with your site periodically for updates.    Thanks again!  I can't wait to go through your list!
[Alissa S]

I'm a goyim guy living in Phoenix, AZ.  I discovered your website while googling around the internet, and have been sharing the jokes with a group of older single Jewish men (mostly retired Doctors, Lawyers and one feisty retired FBI man) who live in the highrise tower where I work.          We have all had a wonderful time for the past several weeks with me telling them a new joke now and then, and with them trying to top mine (yours). Your site has brought much laughter and cheer to these guys most of whom have lost their wives, and have few friends due to their age and inability to get out much.  Some of them have even grown closer to each other since we started exchanging jokes, and have started actually having conversations with each other.            Thank you so much for providing so many laughs and good times for us.  I've even seen two former enemies begin the process of forgiving past slights that have kept them apart for years.
[Gary S, Phoenix, AZ, USA]

Just wanted to say thank you for the trouble you have taken to bring laughter and joy to strangers. At present especially with our tsores in Israel I am always looking for good jokes to brighten my days and those of the people I come in touch with so the next jokes will be to your credit.
PS Having read your home page, let me add that I am an ex-Wembleyite (born and bred ) and used to dance at Hillel House with Maurice and Susie (Susie and I are in touch via emails) - small world, eh? I still dance twice a week and believe that music and humour are two of the greatest signs of belevolence from our Creator.
[Leonie L, Ashkelon, Israel]

I presently live in a very small town in Norteastern Oklahoma called Miami ( pronounced My'am ah ) It is a predomonately American Indian territory and the name is a tribe name. I lived in Massachusetts and moved to Minnesota in 1974, and then to a cruise ship for a couple of years before coming here in 2001. I really enjoy reading through your site and find Jewish humor thoroughly enjoyable. I am 59 years old and went to the University of Vermont ( abbreviated UVM as in the French for Universitas Vers Montain )in the very early sixties. In those days, a lot of Jewish families in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticutt sent their offspring there. The reasoning behind this was twofold: The UVM Medical School is among the best in the world and by going to the undergrad school and doing well, you were almost guaranteed acceptance to the Med School which was very hard to get into; and secondly,at that time the tuition and overall expense for attending there was the lowest in the country for a pre-med college of its caliber. In a class of about 800 students, over 50% were Jewish. The school had 16 Fraternities and 10 Sororities which were the social center for the whole school. Even back then, public pressure was being exerted on schools, clubs, and other public groups to be less restrictive as to race, color, creed, and soforth. Over one half of these campus groups were almost exclusively either Jewish or non-Jewish. The way they got around this was to have at least one token member of another group in each organization. I was recruited by Tau Epsilon Phi because I was Roman Catholic and ended up ( along with the only black student on campus ) living in an otherwise all Jewish Frat four four years. It was absolutely one of the high points of my youth. I learned early on how family and religion played such an important part in the lives of my Frat brothers. It made my college years really meaningful. Where I live now, there probably is not a Jewish family in town, or anyone who would understand the basics of Jewish humor. Your jokes are marvelous. I will continue to follow your site.
[Jim S, Miami, Northeastern Oklahoma, USA]

I just wanted to write and say how much I enjoyed some of your jokes with a London Jewish flavour. I live in New York but was originally from Kingsbury NW9. Best wishes.
[Jeffrey M, New York, USA]

Hi! I just found this web page, WONDERFUL. Could a little Catholic widow contribute a few jokes once in awhile, but yours are terrific. Laughter truly is the best medicine!! It never does anyone any harm and no side affects.     Please add me to your list for jokes - this site sounds very good!! Love to hear from you. I may even find a few to send you!!        I'm from Punnichy, Sk. I heard about your jokes through Ian MacAusland-Bergs site. Laugher worked wonders for Dr. Patch Adams. It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. :)  :)
[Lorraine V, Punnichy, Sk, Canada]

Read about your site in the Hadassah Magazine.  I live in South Florida and would like to be on your mailing list.
[Phyllis, South Florida, USA]

These are very funny, and the "naughtier ones" are just that, not vulgar or nasty.   However your Italian Jewish gentleman (in XXX#38) should be named LEVI (like Carlo and Primo) not LEVY. Couldn't resist, my thesis was on an Italian emigrant workers' association founded by Carlo Levi, hence spin-off into "Jewish Writers of Turin" (Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Leone and Natalia Ginzburg, etc).       I live in Montreal Quebec. Found awordinyoureye doing some kind of web research on migration history. Bookmarked it because it was funny, and not full of spelling errors the way most joke sites are (sorry, I make my living as a translator).
[Maria G, Montreal Quebec, Canada]

Thank you David for your latest update. Yes I wouldn't mind being on your emailing list as I enjoy Yiddishe humour.     I found your site by accident.    Have you ever considered getting a column inch or two in the JC to let people know you are there? I'll try and get you mentioned in our local Jewish paper the Jewish Telegraph.   Looking forward to your updates.
[Lee G, Leeds, UK]

I am from Denmark, not Jewish as far as I know. I have trained as a plumber and later as a student counsellor and I am now employed at the largest technical training institution in Denmark.     I was scanning the net for links to plumbing folklore for a local web page, and wanted to see if there were any Jewish jokes re plumbers or plumbing like in the "plumbing,schlumming... it´s a living.." vein and there, lo and behold came the link to you.
[Benny W, Denmark]

Your jokes rule!!   I love your jokes!! They're hilarious!!   I was reading your home page about people who signed up for a mailing list. I would love to, if that's possible. Could you please reply with any notifications. Keep up the good work
[Frances W]

how is sunny old england doing? i remember living in Chiswick (London SW) at an early age for several years... loved it, except there wasn't enough warmth and the food was horrible. :) still, i love returning for visits to friends and family there.
thanks so much for finding the article but really there's no need to go to the trouble of posting the letter to me. if it was a sunday times article surely they have it on the web somewhere, eh? i'll go hunt down their contacts online if i can find them.  cheers
[Yasha H, Jerusalem, Israel]

Hello, my name is Daniel and I have recently found myself spending much time on your site. Being Jewish, I know I will use many of these jokes with my friends, my Rabbi, etc.  The content of your site is grade A+
[Daniel]

I LIVE IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA IN THE US WHICH IS IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE SNOW AND IT IS ABOUT THIRTY DEGREES.
SHALOM,
[Rich G, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA]

I am MC and need some Barmitzvah jokes. Please help. Thanks.
[Roy B, Sydney, Australia]

Good stuff. However, I may not link to it because of the naughtier jokes. To me they are ok, but some of my visitors may take offence. Have a good day.
[Jacob R]

Congratulations on your site of Jewish Jokes. It is first class (even for me a gentile Aussie from Down Under). I have sent it on to colleagues. ... Again, very, very well done.
[Ray P, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia]

I enjoy the Word in your eye. My education... Accountant...(did not like it).. but in WWII I learned to FLY and then after the Korean affair...I got to work for American Airlines... from 1953 to 1980... so I fell in love with travel and got to understand weather..And today I am on the PC - it is raining in San Diego (first rain in months).
[Ed K, Southern California, USA]

I did a search of Jewish humour sites and found yours. Please add my name to your list. Thank you.
[Ian M]

The note about laughter and humor are the best medicine. I had my heart attack April 1970 and had to retire as an airline Captain. I was an Amateur Ham Radio operator and the Computer was just starting and I got into it.   I collect jokes and send them to friends... and that keeps me happy and busy... right now I am reading about Yiddish...not that I will be speaking it…but that I will understand the history of that LANGUAGE...and it is a language...full of humor...I like the format of your site...and it will I hope bring more friends.
[Ed K, Southern California, USA]

Great jokes David. I can't seem to find the one about the walnuts. "His eyes are not what they use to be."
[Donald L]

I feel that I am a connoisseur of good jokes, so I must say that your collection is just about the finest and funniest that I have heard. Yes, I would like you to add my name to your list of e-mail receivers.
[Charles K, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA]

Your collection is so vast that I haven't managed to scour it fully.
[Unknown]

Thanx for the acknowledgement, David. Some goodies (other) there, too. I'm impressed that you remember your whole massive archive well enough to know what's new. Yes please, I'd love to be on your list.
[Hilary, Melbourne, Australia]

I have just been on your web site. I thought it was great. Is it possible to get these jokes in book form?
[Ged, UK]

I printed off your jokes from your website. I wanted some ideas to put in a speech I have to make at a wedding My speech is to the parents of the bride who we have been friends with for many years. I’m not one for making speeches but a little help would come in useful.
[Ged, UK]

I had a look at David's site - some of the jokes were familiar, others made me laugh out loud. It was good therapy and very cheering. (Where do the contributors come from?) I think it's a lovely idea to set up a site like this.
[Miriam, UK]

Liked the speech section – some nice barbs.
[Brian M, UK]

Where’s “He had a hat?”
[Michael W, Creative Supervisor, Disney Character Voices International Copenhagen, Denmark]

Can you help me find accessories for Israeli style dance wear. We need the COINS that hang from the vest or boleros? Is it possible to get coins with the half sheckel emblem stamped on them? We want Israeli accessories if we can get them, not the Egyptian or Arabian style ones.Thank You for your help,
[Paul A and Kathy]

Do you have that joke, something about the guy eating a ham sandwich, not sure how the whole thing goes. Also, there is another one with the guy ordering a ham and it arrives with an apple in its mouth and finally, can I subscribe to your joke site?  Thanks!! Shalom!!
[Kiaracats]

I am looking for a joke that was E-mailed to me a month or so ago. It ended with, "he had a hat," it was about a Jewish grandmother demanding God return her grandson that had drowned. I am not Jewish, but if you replace Jewish grandmother with Italian, it's the same thing! Do you know or have the joke? Could you send it to me?  Thanks.                       #1 - That's it!!!!!!!!!!  Do you think my Jewish doctor will think it's funny? I thought it was a riot, because of my Italian grandmother! Thanks so much, what a great website!
[Barbara McG]

I found your website a couple of weeks ago while I was looking for Jewish jokes. Here is a good one that my dad sent me, and I thought I would share it with you. Enjoy it, and if he e-mails me any more, I'd be glad to send them your way.
[Ronda H]

Sure, add my name to the list
[Danny S, Brooklyn, New York, USA]

Sensational David!!! You are a master. Thank you very much for including my history and for complete it so funny and very nice. Before I publish my book of Jewish humor, I will send it to you to be corrected. Very nice web page !!!!!Congratulations.
[Marcos S, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Journalist-Writer-Studious and researcher of Jewish Humor]

We will post your site as bangitout.com website of the week this week. Take a look on the homepage.   Keep up the great work!
[Seth G, bangitout.com]

I sure would love to get an email every time you update your site with new jokes (I bet that I won't even be done reading half of the jokes on your page!). I told some friends about awordinyoureye.com, and they couldn't believe that your site had so many jokes. One said he didn't even know that there were that many Jewish jokes!
[Daniel]

I was at dancing on Tuesday and you had the lateral thinking brain teaser up. Where can I find it? It doesn't seem to be on your web site. As I probably won't be at dancing next week as going on holiday the next day, could you please email me where to find it?  I would be really grateful. Many thanks,
[Ruth McF, UK]

The web site looks very good.
[Ed K, Southern California, USA]
 
 

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