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.

Foreword and Notes by Harry Golden

Author: Isaac Metzker
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/21/1990
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780805209808

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.