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Summary: The Indispensable Guide
Review: Everything you need to know about being a classic Jewish mother; detailed instructions on food distribution, guilt, thrift, education, marrying off your children, and how to really, really enjoy yourself (take off your girdle). A hilarious and scarily true-to-life book, beats the heck out of Philip Roth.
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Summary: The Indispensable Guide
Review: Everything you need to know about being a classic Jewish mother; detailed instructions on food distribution, guilt, thrift, education, marrying off your children, and how to really, really enjoy yourself (take off your girdle). A hilarious and scarily true-to-life book, beats the heck out of Philip Roth.
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Summary: e bravo dan greenburg
Review: I looked for this book in New York and one day I got it. I mean, a friend bought it in New York and brought it to Italy. Then I read it. Fantastic. Universally true. Should be compulsory in schools, everywhere especially in Italy. Sort of vaccine. I am now translating it into Italian. I know there is a translation on the web, but I don't like it. Its title will be:
LA PERFETTA MOMMA ITALICA. MANUALE DI AFFETTO MATERNO.
I verymuch hopo that it will be published in Italy!
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Summary: Jewish Mothers, Italian Mothers, Any Mothers!
Review: I was browsing in a bookstore one day about 15 years ago and I came across Dan Greenburg's book, "How to be a Jewish Mother." It was so funny I couldn't put it down, and I ended up buying it for my mother for Christmas. Obviously, that means that we are not Jewish, but the book has an appeal for almost any faith or culture. Most mothers display the same types of behavior that Dan attributes to his mother, such as looking worried and pained but insisting that nothing is wrong, and reminding everyone that someday they will be gone and won't be bothering us anymore. I will need to search through about ten bookcases at home to find our copy of the book, but it will be worth it!
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Summary: Jewish Mothers, Italian Mothers, Any Mothers!
Review: I was browsing in a bookstore one day about 15 years ago and I came across Dan Greenburg's book, "How to be a Jewish Mother." It was so funny I couldn't put it down, and I ended up buying it for my mother for Christmas. Obviously, that means that we are not Jewish, but the book has an appeal for almost any faith or culture. Most mothers display the same types of behavior that Dan attributes to his mother, such as looking worried and pained but insisting that nothing is wrong, and reminding everyone that someday they will be gone and won't be bothering us anymore. I will need to search through about ten bookcases at home to find our copy of the book, but it will be worth it!
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Summary: Even truer now that I'm a grandmother.
Review: I was given this book over 30 years ago when I was a single mother raising two boys. I don't remember reading much in those busy, hectic years, but I remember this book. I laughed and laughed.
I'm a grandmother today and I've still got the same, now tattered copy of that adorable Dan Greenburg's book. If anything, what he says of Jewish mothers is even truer once we become Grandmothers.
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