The Bintel Brief, Editor Isaac Metzker synced The essays in this volume

The essays in this volume examine Galicia beyond the traditional paradigm of national history

almost all in the Pale of Settlement

each beautifully reproduced

Polish anti-Semitic hooligans

Mark Markov-Grinberg

The Bintel Brief, Editor Isaac Metzker synced The essays in this volumeFor more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also gave them a forum for seeking advice and support in the face of problems ranging from wrenching spiritual dilemmas to petty family squabbles to the sometimes