1. A Bintel Brief
You are perplexed by daily dilemmas, such as your daughter wanting to marry a non-Jew, which you consider a shanda. ... You turn to the daily advice column, "A Bintel Brief," in the Yiddish Daily Forward. ... By basing its content on letters from "A Bintel Brief," it imaginatively transports us back to the issues and history of Jewish immigrant life in America. More than two million Eastern European Jews settled in America from 1880 to 1925, and a key to their understanding American life was the Yiddish newspapers, the Forward being one of the most popular. ...
- Word Count: 298
- Approx Pages: 1
- Grade Level: High School