A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward Paperback - 1990
by Isaac Metzker
First line
Esteemed Editor, I hope that you will advise me in my present difficulty.
From the rear cover
For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, 'A Bintel Brief' dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. 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.
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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.
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- Title A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
- Author Isaac Metzker
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Schocken Books Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date April 21, 1990
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780805209808 / 0805209808
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.3 x 0.67 in (20.37 x 13.46 x 1.70 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs, Jews - New York (State) - New York - Social
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89043286
- Dewey Decimal Code 974.710
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