{"product_id":"a-bintel-brief-love-and-longing-in-old-new-york-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinck, Liana:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eLiana Finck studied fine art and graphic design at Cooper Union College. A former Fulbright fellow and recipient of a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTablet\u003c\/em\u003e, among other publications. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911213814034,"sku":"9780062291615","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_84b2c45a-b313-440b-a2ad-d86b0e239e35.jpg?v=1738733819","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-bintel-brief-love-and-longing-in-old-new-york-9780062291615","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}