A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward. Volume One.

ISBN 10: 0805209808 / ISBN 13: 9780805209808

Published by Schocken Books, New York, 1971

About this Item

Octavo, paper covers, 215 pp., b/w photos Compiled, edited with an Introduction by David Metzger. Foreword and Notes by Harry Golden.

Seller Inventory # 104071

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward. Volume One.
• Publisher: Schocken Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805209808
• ISBN 13: 9780805209808
• Binding: Hardbound
• Edition: Later Printing.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Judaica

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

ISAAC METZKER was a longtime editor of and contributor to the Jewish Daily Forward, the author of five novels in Yiddish, and the editor of a second volume of A Bintel Brief.