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A Bintel brief : sixty years of letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish daily forward / compiled, edited and with an introduction by Isaac Metzker ; foreword and notes by Harry Golden.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks F128.9.J5 B46 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs.
- Jews.
- Manners and customs.
- Advice columns.
- Letters to the editor.
- Immigrants.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs.
- Forṿerṭs (New York, N.Y.).
- Letters to the editor--New York (State)--New York.
- Advice columns--New York (State)--New York.
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Immigrants--Social life and customs.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- New York (State)--New York--Lower East Side.
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, [1990]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1971.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bintel brief.
- ISBN:
- 0805209808
- 9780805209808
- OCLC:
- 20799442
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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