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In 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, A Bintel Brief is Liana Finck’s evocative, elegiac love letter to the turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants who transformed New York City and America itself.
A Bintel Brief "A Bundle of Letters"—was the enormously popular advice column of The Forward, 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.
Drawn from these letters—selected and adapted by Liana Finck and brought to life in her appealing two-color illustrations—A Bintel Brief is a tour of Lower East Side New York, and includes an imaginative conversation with the Yiddish "Dear Abby," Abraham Cahan, The Forward's legendary editor and creator of the Bintel Brief column.
From premarital sex to family politics to struggles with jobs and money, A Bintel Brief is an enlightening look at a segment of America's rich cultural past that offers fresh insights for our own lives as well.
- Sales Rank: #557013 in Books
- Published on: 2014-04-15
- Released on: 2014-04-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.13" h x .29" w x 7.38" l, .60 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
Review
“[One] the most powerful books I’ve read so far this year… Finck’s illustrations intensify the emotional resonance of these letters, invoking the buoyant magic of Marc Chagall, but also sometimes descending into the cramped world of the tenements.” (NPR's Fresh Air)
“[Finck] brings an entirely new dimension to what has become, for modern readers, a portal into a world that feels impossibly distant.” (The Paris Review (online review))
Taken together, even just these 11 letters provide an invaluable sooty window onto life on the Lower East Side…. “A Bintel Brief” makes you positively hungry to read comparable letters to American immigrant newspapers around the country right now.” (New York Times)
“[A] sharp, evocative style that reminds me sometimes of Ben Katchor and other times of Roz Chast. Finck’s book is more than a collection of advice columns, though-it’s an imaginative leap into the art of nostalgia…I really loved A Bintel Brief.” (Slate)
“A wonderfully illustrated gem of a book…I’ve read that story several times over the years, but rarely savored it quite the way I did with Finck’s book. This is because of the drawings.” (Tablet)
“[A] rich, hilarious and authentic fable. …Finck’s versatility and imagination makes this book a delight.” (Miami Herald)
From the Back Cover
An evocative, elegiac love letter to New York City and the immigrant culture that continues to make it the most original and influential city in the world.
As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, a surge of Jewish immigrants to New York City reshaped indelibly not only the culture of the metropolis but of America itself. Struggling to assimilate to a new world while reconciling it to the old one they had left behind, these men and women shared their most private hopes and fears in a series of letters submitted to "A Bintel Brief"—Yiddish for "A Bundle of Letters"—the enormously popular, deeply affecting and often hilarious advice column of the newspaper The Forward.
Conceived by Abraham Cahan, editor of The Forward, who answered every letter himself, A Bintel Brief transformed the fortunes of the paper, rapidly making it the most widely read Yiddish-language newspaper in the world. The letters that flooded into A Bintel Brief spoke with unparalleled immediacy to the daily heartbreaks and comedies of their bewildered writers' new lives, capturing the hope, isolation and confusion of assimilation, from intergenerational family politics and judgmental neighbors to crises of faith, unrequited love, runaway husbands, soul-crushing poverty and the difficulty of building an entirely new life from scratch.
Drawn from these letters—selected and adapted by Liana Finck and brought to life in her singularly expressive illustrations that combine Art Spiegelman's deft emotionality and the magical spirit of Marc Chagall—A Bintel Brief is a wonderful panorama of a world and its people who, though long gone, are startlingly like ourselves. It is also a platonic love story of sorts between Abraham Cahan and Liana, as they engage in a bittersweet dialogue that explores the pleasures and perils of nostalgia, even as it affirms the necessary forward movement of life.
About the Author
Liana 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 The New Yorker, The Forward and Tablet, among other publications. She lives in New York City.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
A delightful read!
By sarahtk
My husband loved reading this, I did as well, and now I am buying a copy for my mom! A wonderful selection for anyone interested in Jewish culture and the immigrant experience. The graphic-novel style is perfect for bringing to life these stories drawn from A Bintel Brief (an advice column for new immigrants in the venerable Yiddish paper The Forward).
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A Treasure to Treasure
By Viola Pinch
This book is a treasure. It's beautifully drawn, beautifully told. Liana Finck's brings back, and brings to life, a classic feature of the immigrant world - the Bintel Brief. I have now bought four copies - one for myself, three for my friends. My book club will read it in June, and I can't wait for the discussions.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
A bit of art, literature, and history...
By Jill Meyer
Young artist Liana Finck has produced a graphic book about letters sent to "The Forward", a Yiddish newspaper published in New York City, after the turn of the 20th century. Her book, "A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York", can be viewed as art, literature, and history.
The lower East Side of New York City was the home of thousands of Jewish immigrants who emigrated here from Russia and other eastern European areas. Mostly poor, they settled in the tenements and looked for jobs to support themselves and their families. "Greenhorns", as the newest immigrants were sneeringly referred to by other Jews who had been here for longer...at least one or two years in many cases, were also saving to bring their families over from the lands they had left. (These early immigrants were fleeing the Russian pogroms and though not known at the time, of course, bringing family over here in the first thirty or so years of the century saved them from the Nazi killing fields of the 1940's.)
The newspaper "The Forward" was a Yiddish piece-of-familiarity for these new immigrants. They could read the paper in their own language and the newspaper published helpful and timely articles for them.One of the most popular features of the paper was the "Bintel Brief", a column of letters written to editor Abraham Cahan, seeking his advise on points of assimilation. And what interesting letters Cahan received and answered. Letters that questioned American habits which seemed strange to these new immigrants. Questions about manners and love and history and almost anything that challenged these newcomers.
Liana Finck has taken ten or so letters and built a story around them. Beginning in today's world, she looks back on relatives who had saved copies of the newspapers with a selection of these letters. Her art work is excellent and the book is deeply touching to those of us who had relatives who made that long trek over a hundred years ago.
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