Bad rabbi : and other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press /

Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird-Jews w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Portnoy, Eddy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Colección:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Temas:
Yiddish newspapers > New York (State) > New York > History.
Yiddish newspapers > Poland > Warsaw > History.
Jewish newspapers > New York (State) > New York > History.
Jewish newspapers > Poland > Warsaw > History.
Jews > New York (State) > New York > Social life and customs.
Jews > Poland > Warsaw > Social life and customs.
Yiddish newspapers > History.
Electronic books.
Journaux yiddish > Histoire.
Journaux juifs > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Journaux juifs > Pologne > Varsovie > Histoire.
Juifs > New York (État) > New York > Mœurs et coutumes.
Juifs > Pologne > Varsovie > Mœurs et coutumes.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Jewish newspapers
Jews > Social life and customs
Yiddish newspapers
New York (State) > New York
Poland > Warsaw
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a brief and not entirely uncomplicated history of the Yiddish press
  • Jewish abortion technician
  • The Hebrew girl murderer of East New York
  • The Jewish Mahatma
  • The great tonsil riot of 1906
  • Rivington Street's wheel of (mis)fortune
  • Yom Kippur battle royale
  • Attack of the Yiddish journalists
  • Suicide Jews
  • Battle at the bris
  • Urke Nachalnik : fine young criminal
  • The strange case of Gimel Kuper, mystery journalist
  • Semitic beauty drives Jews wild : film at eleven
  • Ever fallen in love with someone (you shouldn't have fallen in love with)?
  • My Yiddishe divorce
  • Shomer fucking Shabbos
  • 625-pound Jews and other oddities
  • Bad rabbi : bigamy, blackmail, and the Radimner rebbetzin
  • You think you've got troubles? : stories from Warsaw's Yiddish crime blotter.

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