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ISBN: 1503603970 9781503603974 9780804797610 0804797617 150360411X 9781503604117 Year: 2020 Publisher: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press,
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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 pre-WWII New York and Warsaw, the two major centers of Yiddish culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With true stories plucked from the pages of the Yiddish papers, Eddy Portnoy introduces us to the drunks, thieves, murderers, wrestlers, poets, and beauty queens whose misadventures were immortalized in print. There's the Polish rabbi blackmailed by an American widow, mass brawls at weddings and funerals, a psychic who specialized in locating missing husbands, and violent gangs of Jewish mothers on the prowl—in short, not quite the Jews you'd expect. One part Isaac Bashevis Singer, one part Jerry Springer, this irreverent, unvarnished, and frequently hilarious compendium of stories provides a window into an unknown Yiddish world that was.
Yiddish newspapers --- Jewish newspapers --- Jews --- Newspapers --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Jewish press --- History. --- Social life and customs.
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ISBN: 164469364X 1644693631 Year: 2020 Publisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press,
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In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labor movement. They formed the milieu of the hugely successful daily Forverts (Forward), established in New York in April 1897. Its editorial columns and bylined articles—many of whose authors, such as Abraham Cahan and Sholem Asch, were household names at the time—both reflected and shaped the attitudes and values of the readership. Most pages of this book are focused on the newspaper’s reaction to the political developments in the home country. Profound admiration of Russian literature and culture did not mitigate the writers’ criticism of the czarist and Soviet regimes.
Jewish newspapers --- Jewish socialists --- Jews --- Socialism and Judaism --- Yiddish newspapers --- HISTORY / Jewish. --- Judaism and socialism --- Judaism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Socialists, Jewish --- Socialists --- Jewish press --- Newspapers --- Intellectual life. --- History --- Forṿerṭs (New York, N.Y.) --- Forward, New York --- Forward (New York, N.Y.) --- Forwerts (New York, N.Y.) --- Jewish daily forward (New York, N.Y.) --- Vorwaerts (New York, N.Y.) --- 1917. --- Abraham Cahan. --- American Jews. --- Birobidzhan. --- Bolsheviks. --- Crimea. --- Eastern Europe. --- Forverts. --- Forward. --- Hebrew. --- Jewish press. --- Judaism. --- Marxism. --- New York. --- Palestine. --- Russia. --- Russian Revolution. --- Sholem Asch. --- WWI. --- WWII. --- Yiddish. --- Zionism. --- anti-Sovietism. --- communists. --- culture. --- debate. --- diaspora. --- immigration. --- internationalism. --- journalism. --- language. --- media. --- newspapers. --- patriotism. --- political commentary. --- socialists. --- war.
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