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A Bintel Brief

Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

By: Isaac Metzker

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A Bintel Brief

Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

By: Isaac Metzker

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

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Schocken

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ISBN 10

0307787001

ISBN 13

9780307787002

A Bintel Brief

Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

By: Isaac Metzker

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A Bintel Brief

Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

By: Isaac Metzker

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Schocken

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ISBN 10

0307787001

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9780307787002

Grandfather's Acres

By: Isaac Metzker,Michal Goldstein

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Grandfather's Acres

By: Isaac Metzker,Michal Goldstein

Grandfather's Acres is a novel that presents a mixed Jewish and gentile rural community in Eastern Galicia (Ukraine), at the end of the nineteenth century. An Orthodox Jewish family of farmers struggles with the hardships of daily life, tension with their alien neighbors and the changing moods of nationalism and enlightenment that are sweeping through the countryside. Moments of sorrow and those of happiness punctuate the lives of these determined and devoted Jewish farmers, against a backdrop of sometimes frightening political change. The lives and the way of life, portrayed in this novel are told with a deep admiration and love, which serves as a literary testimony to a reality that, 50 years later, went up in flames.

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