Description: A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward 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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Type: Anthology
Signed: No
Book Series: n/a
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Intended Audience: Adults
Book Title: Bintel Brief : Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1990
Topic: Emigration & Immigration, Journalism, Customs & Traditions, Jewish Studies, Jewish
Item Height: 0.7 in
Genre: Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Author: Isaac Metzker
Item Length: 7.9 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
