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      A Bintel Brief

      by Isaac Metzker
      Published
      Oct 1981
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      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

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      First Edition Oct 1981 Viking ISBN13 9780670166718 ISBN10 0670166715
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      Mar 2011 Schocken ISBN13 9780307787002 ISBN10 0307787001
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      Mar 2011 Schocken ISBN10 B004KABDWU
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