A Bintel BriefAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Tuesday 15 April 2014
Description
In an illustrative style that is a thrilling mash-up of Art Spiegelmans deft emotionality, Roz Chasts hilarious neuroses, and the magical spirit of Marc Chagall, A Bintel Brief is Liana Fincks evocative, elegiac love letter to the turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants who transformed New York City and America itself.
A Bintel Brief A Bundle of Letterswas the enormously popular advice column of The Forward, the widely read Yiddish language newspaper begun in 1906 New York. Written by a diverse community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, these letters spoke to the daily heartbreaks and comedies of their new lives, capturing the hope, isolation, and confusion of assimilation.
Drawn from these lettersselected and adapted by Liana Finck and brought to life in her appealing two-color illustrationsA Bintel Brief is a tour of Lower East Side New York, and includes an imaginative conversation with the Yiddish Dear Abby, Abraham Cahan, The Forwards legendary editor and creator of the Bintel Brief column.
From premarital sex to family politics to struggles with jobs and money, A Bintel Brief is an enlightening look at a segment of Americas rich cultural past that offers fresh insights for our own lives as well.
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