The Big Jewish Book for Jews

Ellis Weiner was an editor of National Lampoon and a columnist for Spy. He has written humor pieces for many publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the New York Times Magazine, Air & Space, and Modern Humorist. He is the author of Santa Lives!, The Big Jewish Book for Jews, Yiddish with Dick and Jane (with Barbara Davilman), The Joy of Worry, Decade of the Year, Letters From Cicely, and The Northern Exposure Cookbook, and is the coauthor (with Sydney Biddle Barrows) of Mayflower Manners.

Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman are publishing veterans and have written many successful humor books, including Yiddish with Dick and Jane. Davilman is a writer-producer for reality television. She lives in Los Angeles.