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Author:

Portnoy, Eddy, author.

Title:

Bad rabbi : and other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press / Eddy Portnoy.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Yiddish newspapers--New York--New York--History.
Yiddish newspapers--Warsaw--Warsaw--History.
Jewish newspapers--New York--New York--History.
Jewish newspapers--Warsaw--Warsaw--History.
Jews--New York--New York--Social life and customs.
Jews--Warsaw--Warsaw--Social life and customs.
Jewish newspapers.
Jews--Social life and customs.
Yiddish newspapers.
New York (State)--New York.
Poland--Warsaw.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-253) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : a brief and not entirely uncomplicated history of the Yiddish press -- Jewish abortion technician -- The Hebrew girl murderer of East New York -- The Jewish Mahatma -- The great tonsil riot of 1906 -- Rivington Street's wheel of (mis)fortune -- Yom Kippur battle royale -- Attack of the Yiddish journalists -- Suicide Jews -- Battle at the bris -- Urke Nachalnik : fine young criminal -- The strange case of Gimel Kuper, mystery journalist -- Semitic beauty drives Jews wild : film at eleven -- Ever fallen in love with someone (you shouldn't have fallen in love with)? -- My Yiddishe divorce -- Shomer fucking Shabbos -- 625-pound Jews and other oddities -- Bad rabbi : bigamy, blackmail, and the Radimner rebbetzin -- You think you've got troubles? : stories from Warsaw's Yiddish crime blotter.

Series:

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

ISBN:

150360411X
9781503604117
0804797617
9780804797610

OCLC:

(OCoLC)980346751

LCCN:

2017013491

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)