Liana Finck's wonderful A Bintel Brief is a book about that lost world of pickle barrels and dybbcks, but it's more than that. It's also about how the ghostly past overlaps with and informs the present. A fictionalized collection of letters from "Bintel Briefs", a popular advice column based on letters from readers of the Yiddish socialist newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward.
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