Created by Abraham Cahan in 1906, the advice column A Bintel Brief ran as the most enduring feature of the New York Yiddish newspaper Forverts for over seven decades. This study takes a closer look at the letters and responses to A Bintel Brief thereby revealing the hardships of uprooted Eastern European Jews. In an uncharted environment they turned to the column for guidance. In his answers, the editor of The Bintel Brief was always sympathetic, yet pragmatic, encouraging assimilation and ethnic group solidarity, thus paving the way for the readers to become accepted Jewish Americans.
| ISBN: | 9783631657591 |
| Publication date: | 11th November 2015 |
| Author: | Magdalena Ewa Bier |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 414 pages |
| Series: | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik |
| Genres: |
Society and culture: general Communication studies Regional / International studies Social and cultural anthropology Social and cultural history |