You Don't Have to be Jewish is a 1965 comedy album written by Bob Booker and George Foster, the team behind the 1962 comedy album The First Family.

[2] The album features Lou Jacobi, Betty Walker, Jack Gilford, Joe Silver, Jackie Kannon, Bob McFadden, Frank Gallop, and Arlene Golonka,[3] in a variety of roles, mostly Jewish, performing a mixture of jokes and comedy sketches.

The album was recorded with a live audience, as the cast performed a script, like a radio play.

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"[5] A sequel, When You're in Love, the Whole World is Jewish, largely reunited the original cast but replaced the unavailable Golonka with her roommate,[6] Valerie Harper.