{"product_id":"a-bintel-brief-liana-finck-9780062291615","title":"A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eA Bintel Brief\u003c\/em\u003e is Liana Finck's evocative, elegiac love letter to the turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants who transformed New York City and America itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Bintel Brief \"A Bundle of Letters\"--was the enormously popular advice column of \u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from these letters--selected and adapted by Liana Finck and brought to life in her appealing two-color illustrations--\u003cem\u003eA Bintel Brief\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour of Lower East Side New York, and includes an imaginative conversation with the Yiddish \"Dear Abby,\" Abraham Cahan, \u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e's legendary editor and creator of the Bintel Brief column.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom premarital sex to family politics to struggles with jobs and money, \u003cem\u003eA Bintel Brief\u003c\/em\u003e is an enlightening look at a segment of America's rich cultural past that offers fresh insights for our own lives as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liana Finck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0062291610\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062291615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 7.20w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/03\/2014","brand":"Liana Finck","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990070067455,"sku":"9780062291615","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95d7c378-a4e1-47fd-8482-2f91da90aac9.jpg?v=1683302831","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-bintel-brief-liana-finck-9780062291615","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}