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Love and Longing in Old New York
Ecco
May 2014
On Sale: April 29, 2014
128 pages
ISBN: 0062291610
EAN: 9780062291615
Kindle: B00JOGB34I
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Graphic Novel
In an illustrative style that is a thrilling mash-up of Art
Spiegelman's deft emotionality, Roz Chast's hilarious
neuroses, and the magical spirit of Marc Chagall, A
Bintel Brief is Liana Finck’s 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 Letters"—was 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
letters—selected and adapted by Liana Finck and brought to
life in her appealing two-color illustrations—A Bintel
Brief is a tour of Lower East Side New York, and
includes an imaginative conversation with the Yiddish "Dear
Abby," Abraham Cahan, The Forward's 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 America's rich cultural past that offers fresh
insights for our own lives as well.
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