In the 1950s and 1960s, Anglo-Jewish newspapers around the world carried “Dayenu”, a gag cartoon by, about, and for Jews. Written by Rabbi Henry Rabin and drawn by artist Leonard Pritikin – working together under the name “Henry Leonard” – these cartoons took a wry look at the synagogue, the community, and the world.

During the 1960s, Crown Publishers of New York published a series of collections of the comic, and now all four of those collections are combined into a single volume for the first time. Hundreds of cartoons from Open Your Mouth and Say “Oy”, Never on Shabbas!, With a Little Bit of Mazel-Tov!, and Bagel Power fill the pages of this book, a wonderful gift item!

Selected as one of the “Best Books of 2022” by Panels & Prose.
“the cartoons provide a mixture of laughs and museum wonder.” — Larry Yudelson, The Jewish Standard

  • 295 pages, 5.5 x  8.5 inches
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949996492
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949996494

The four books that make up this compilation are also available separately at Amazon:

By About Comics

About Comics, founded and run by Eisner Award-winning writer Nat Gertler, has been reprinting comics of various forms since 1999. Based in Camarillo, California, About Comics has published not just comics reprints (of comic strips, cartoon books, comic books, and graphic novels) but also original comics, comics how-to material, original and reprint prose novels, and historic material like the Negro Motorist Green Book. More information is available at AboutComics.com.