Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
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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 who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their bread landed...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:150360411X
ISBN13:9781503604117
Release Date:October 2017
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.88 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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