(PDF Download) Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press - Eddy Portnoy

Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press

By : Eddy Portnoy

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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 butter side down in the dirt. These marginal Jews may have found their way into the history books far less frequently than their more socially upstanding neighbors, but there's one place you can find them in force: in the Yiddish newspapers that had their heyday from the 1880s to the 1930s. Disaster, misery, and misfortune: you will find no better chronicle of the daily ignominies of urban Jewish life than in the pages of the Yiddish press.An underground history of downwardly mobile Jews, Bad Rabbi exposes the seamy underbelly of

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Author : Eddy Portnoy

Pages : 280 pages

Publisher : Stanford University Press

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ISBN-10 : 150360411X

ISBN-13 : 9781503604117

 
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