Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe (edition 2008)

by Lisa Alcalay Klug

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Title:	Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe
Authors:	Lisa Alcalay Klug
Info:	Andrews McMeel Publishing (2008), Paperback, 256 pages
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I think I wasn't the ideal audience for this book. I didn't enjoy the humor style and I found it hard to get through. I think I made it about 1/3 of the way through the book before giving up. I don’t have any intention of going back to it.

remonkey | Jan 3, 2011 |

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Didn't like this book at all. I found it to be sophomoric and insulting. Not sure what I'm going to do with it now.

shainamaydel | Jan 18, 2010 |

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This book is AWFUL. Insultingly stupid, superficial and shlocky. Isn't there enough bad Jew humor out there? This book is a pseudo-hipster nightmare of a toilet seat reader and makes Jews look ridiculous. I am embarrassed to keep it by my toilet, even. (

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twostepsfwd | Nov 5, 2008 |

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Surprisingly comprehensive and informative introduction to modern Jewish life, whether lived as a cultural or religious affiliation. (

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Becca562 | Sep 7, 2008 |

Cool Jew is exactly that - an affirmation that being an authentic Jew today is very cool, and hard to contain in a stodgy academic essay. Klug has managed to provide serious substance in an incredible new medium. Reading and playing with this book feels like a visit to the right kind of cosmopolitan center where everything-Jewish meets everything-else-Jewish, where the reader is in dialogue both with history and with self. There are even moments in which the Divine might be peeking out both from the pages and from the reader's eyes, wide open in laughter, relfection and curiosity. Klug is a modern-day Rashi, translating ancient Heebster wisdom for tomorrow.

rabbicreditor | Sep 2, 2008 |

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0740771132, Paperback)

It's never been hipper to be Jewish." --VH1

Cool Jew does for gefilte fish and matzah balls what the Preppy Handbook did for plaid and polo-only with much more chutzpah.

Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe by Lisa Alcalay Klug delivers the kosher response to The Preppy Handbook. --Publishers Weekly

Cool Jew covers everything Hebraic from womb to tomb, finally putting an end to Christmas tree envy. Short essays, lists, instructional guides, photographs, and original illustrations celebrate Jewish cultural pride with love, enthusiasm, and irreverence.

Entries ranging from "Heebonics for the Yiddish Impaired" to "Self-Help for the Christmas Carole Intolerant" provide the long-awaited Jewish response to that WASP manual of the '80s, The Preppy Handbook.

In addition to cultural hilarity, Cool Jew features resourceful back-of-the-book material, including "People of Da Book" (authoritative texts on Jewish concepts and culture), the "Heebster Jewke Box" (tunes that rock the Heebster vibe), and the "Tribe Online" (an extensive listing of Jewish Web resources).

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