- Summary
- "Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility and successfully assimilating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird--Jews who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their bread landed butter side down in the dirt. An underground history of downwardly mobile Jews, Bad Rabbi mines the Yiddish press to expose the seamy underbelly of pre-WWII New York and Warsaw, the two major centers of Yiddish culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--Page 4 of cover.
- Series
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Portnoy, Eddy, author.
- Published
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Locale
- New York (State)
New York
Poland
Warsaw
- Contents
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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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-253) and index.
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.
