Sol Weinstein

Sure, you know about chicken soup, but do you know about a souped-up chicken?Jonathan Segal Chicken was just another piece of kosher poultry, but he decided he wanted something more. He wanted to fly, and fly he did, on adventures that take him out into the world... and beyond.This classic parody from the 1970s is now available again in this newly redesigned edition."It is a witty and bitchy book, which amply repays the time and trouble which were once taken with its more serious and less significant forbear." - The Spectator (UK)

From those classics days of the 1970s comes this hilarious satire.A STORY OF FAT AND THE DEVILThis book has it all: the diets, the devil, witch-craft, religion, and one man's struggle to save his wife from the horrors of her own rapidly in-creasing bulk. Only the most extreme measures will save his beloved wife. Week after week she grows fatter and fatter, without benefit of knife and fork. Who can help her? When all else has failed, he must call in the powerful high priest of physical fitness and sensible eating-Romaine LeLane, The Exerciser

When the President of the United States is kidnapped, only one man can save him... but oh, what a man Diplomat. Author. Love machine. Henry Kissingherr was the man of the moment, the one to get things done. When his adopted country needs him, this frumpy, overweight Jew does what only this frumpy, overweight Jew can do, taking on the rebels, the radicals, the special interests, the pornographers, and the killers. He's going to save the day, no matter how many beautiful women he has to seduce to do so

It's dire times for Israeli intelligence agency M 33 and 1/3. Auntie Sem-Heidt and her sinister agents of TUSH have been killing off Hebrew agents, as part of a devious plan to eradicate Jewish culture at its base. And in the midst of this, turmoil, super agent Israel Bond finds himself stuck with the job of protecting Baldroi LeFagel, the half-arab and all-fabulous new King of Sahd Sakistan. Will the Star of David-lovin' Agent Oy-Oy-7 be willing to handle all of the crosses needed for this assignment (crossing physical boundaries, moral boundaries, and even cross-dressing), or will all this mishugas leave him cross-eyed and just plain cross?ABOUT ISRAEL BOND, AGENT OY-OY-7: In the mid-1960s, when PLAYBOY was serializing the adventures of the world's most famous superspy, they interspersed them with the rollicking tales of Israel's most hilarious weapon, Israel Bond. After the book editions of what the CHICAGO TRIBUNE called "probably the funniest secret agent parodies ever written" had sold over a million copies, they were allowed to fall out of print. Decades later, all four books in the Israel Bond series are back in new editions