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How to Become Jewish Americans?: The "A Bintel Brief" Advice Column in Abraham Cahan's Yiddish "Forverts" - Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik Magdalena Ewa Bier New edition
How to Become Jewish Americans?: The "A Bintel Brief" Advice Column in Abraham Cahan's Yiddish "Forverts" - Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik
Magdalena Ewa Bier
The study analyzes the first decades of the Yiddish advice colum A Bintel Brief. Created by Abraham Cahan, it ran as the most enduring feature in the New York Yiddish newspaper Forverts. The early letters and responses in A Bintel Brief reveal the hardships of uprooted Eastern European Jews in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.
414 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 11, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9783631657591 |
| Publishers | Peter Lang AG |
| Pages | 414 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 157 × 3 mm · 628 g |
| Language | French |