A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York

by Liana Finck

Book Overview

In an illustrative style that is a thrilling mash-up of Art Spiegelman's deft emotionality, Roz Chast's hilarious neuroses, and the magical spirit of Marc Chagall, A Bintel Brief is Liana Finck's evocative, elegiac love letter to the turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants who transformed New York City and America itself.

A Bintel Brief "A Bundle of Letters"--was the enormously popular advice column of The Forward, the widely read Yiddish language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062291610
• ISBN13: 9780062291615
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 8.9"