"The Yiddish newspaper The Forward was a lifeline for Jewish immigrants in New York during the first half of the 1900s. Its beloved advice column, "a Bintel Brief," was introduced in 1906 by the paper's editor, Abraham Cahan. The letters Cahan received from his readers were full of the kind of raw desperation and hopefulness we all feel, under everything. They are timeless."
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Liana Finck Author's Note to A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York (2014)
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