A 1983 French adaptation, Comment devenir une mère juive en 10 leçons, met with long-running success.[9][10]Gertrude Berg also released a best-selling comedy album from the book in 1965.[1]
It is deemed as a book that reinforced the stereotype of the Jewish mother in American culture.[11] The anthropologist Jonathan Boyarin qualified the book a "work of covert anti-Semitism".[12]
