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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press - Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture by Eddy Portnoy Details

Many stories of immigrant Jews on the outside look, climb the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilate and integrate into their new worlds. But this book is not about success…

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Many stories of immigrant Jews on the outside look, climb the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilate and integrate into their new worlds. But this book is not about success stories. It is a brave thing for wealthy law holders, even presidents, and strange Jews who descended from the small, impoverished eastern European towns to urban areas of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their side of butter shakes down in the dust.

These marginal Jews may find their way to history books far less than their more socially disciplined neighbors, but there is one place you can find it: in Yiddish newspapers that peaked in 1880 to 1930. Disaster, misery, and tragedy: you will not find a better history of protests Daily Jewish life in the cities is more than the pages of the Yiddish press. The Secret History of the Jews Going Down The bad rabbi exposes the weak pre-World War II class in New York and Warsaw, the two main centers of Yiddish culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

With real stories selected from the pages of Yiddish newspapers, Eddie Portenoy presents us with drunks, thieves, murderers, wrestlers, poets and queens of beauty who have devoted themselves to printing adventures. There is a Polish rabbi who was seduced by an American widow, gang fights in weddings and funerals, a psychiatrist who specializes in locating missing couples, violent gangs of Jewish mothers in a short time, not the Jews you expect.

Part One Isaac Basheis Singer, Part One Jerry Springer, This unambiguous, heterogeneous, and hilarious summary often provides a window to an unknown Yiddish world.



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