Authors
Marnie Winston-MacauleyThe Jewish mother feels her job isn't done even after death. You're never too dead to be a Jewish mother." (Mallory Lewis, daughter of Shari Lewis)
What do Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Jon Stewart, Bette Midler, and Natalie Portman have in common with this book? A Jewish mother. Is there such a thing as a Jewish mother? And if so, who is she? For the first time, bestselling Jewish author and humorist Marnie Winston-Macauley examines all aspects of the Jewish mother.
Chronicling biblical Jewish mothers to modern-day Yentls, she creates a compendium using celebrity interviews, anecdotes, humour, and scholarly sources to answer these questions with truth and humour.
"The definitive source on Jewish mothers." (Eileen Warshaw, PhD, executive director of the Jewish Heritage Center of the Southwest)