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A Bintel Brief

By Isaac Metzker

A Bintel Brief Contemporary literature

A Bintel Brief

By Isaac Metzker

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For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also gave them a forum for seeking advice and support in the face of problems ranging from wrenching spiritual dilemmas to petty family squabbles to the sometimes hilarious predicaments that result when Old World meets New. Isaac Metzker's beloved selection of these letters and responses has become for today's readers a remarkable oral record not only of the varied problems of Jewish immigrant life in America but also of the catastrophic events of the first half of our century. Foreword and Notes by Harry Golden
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
1990-04-21
Publication Date:
1990-04-21
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0805209808
ISBN13:
9780805209808
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
307 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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