Rolling in the Aisles (The Holy Humor Series)

Rolling in the Aisles (The Holy Humor Series)





Greet the New Millennium with Laughter with Eight Collections of Jokes, Cartoons, and "Jestimonials"! Effectively disproving any notion that Christians are relentlessly dour, melancholy, humorless, and joyless, these books from Cal and Rose Samra offer a rib-tickling treasury of Christian joy and humor. They're as ideally suited to individuals and families looking for a laugh as they are to pastors, speakers, and all those who seek to spice up their presentations - and their lives - with a few power-packed moments of Holy Humor.

For more than a decade, the interdenominational Fellowship of Merry Christians has been publishing The Joyful Noiseletter, an award-winning newsletter filled with church life humor by some of the world's top comedians, humorists, clowns, and cartoonists. Now, the most snicker-spurring and laughter-inciting of these comical contributions are available in four uproarious trade paperback collections and four mini-giftbooks!

Featuring cartoons by such gifted cartoonists as Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus, and Johnny Hart, creator of B.C., these collections by editors Cal and Rose Samra are a virtual treasury of good, clean, inspirational humor. Within the pages of each book, readers will find enough knee-slapping jokes, uplifting anecdotes, zingy one-liners, joyful Scripture references, inspiring stories, top ten lists, clean limericks, church cartoons, real-life "uh-ohs," bulletin bloopers, and "jestimonials" from pastors, health professionals, chaplains, and patients to make them laugh from start to finish!

Conveniently arranged by topic or month for easy use, each book is ideal for pastors, teachers, public speakers, and all who seek to fill their lives with God-inspired joy and holy laughter, to help them face the challenges of life.









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Classic Jewish Humor in America





American Jewish humor began with the early colonial settlers, the Jews, who first arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) from Brazil in 1654 aboard the St. Charles, otherwise known as the Jewish Mayflower. Their descendants constituted a majority of the Jewish citizenry in North America for more than 200 years.

The scene began to change when, in 1848, the Jews of Germany were oppressed to the point where tens of thousands were forced to flee their homeland, most of them coming to America--the New World--the world of great promise.

Then, between 1881 and 1900, the dire plight of the Jews of Eastern Europe--particularly those in Poland, Rumania, Hungary, and Lithuania--led to a stampede of emigration, the result being that some 600,000 newcomers settled in the United States.

With each major shift of population, the quality of Jewish life in America and the character of Jews living there began to change. But all these harried, persecuted, and plundered people, whose beginnings in the "Golden Land" were marked by the direst poverty, gave to American Jewish humor its warmth, its deep compassion, and its joyful optimism.

Featured between the pages of this volume by Henry D. Spalding, author of the renowned Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor (a classic in its own right), are the very best stories, anecdotes, and witticisms that have been told by and about Jews since they first set foot on American shores.

Here are the classics, the amusing tales and jokes that are guaranteed to delight not only because they are wonderfully funny and familiar, but because they recapture the spirit of a fun-loving people who struggled against all odds to make good in a new land.

Classic Jewish Humor in America sparkles with wit and drollery, qualities that have been the hallmark of Jewish humor throughout the centuries. Henry D. Spalding's extraordinary compilation is not only laugh-inducing, but it is a marvelous social document that vividly recaptures the flavor of the Jewish world of yesterday.









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