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

Author/creator Portnoy, Eddy
Format Electronic
Publication InfoStanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Descriptionx, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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SeriesStanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. ^A383414
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017013491
ISBN9780804797610 ( hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781503604117 (softcover : alk. paper)

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