Bad rabbi : and other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press
- Title
- Bad rabbi : and other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press / Eddy Portnoy.
- Published by
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 265 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Series statement
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Uniform title
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
- Subject
- Yiddish newspapers
- Jewish newspapers
- Jews > Social life and customs
- Yiddish newspapers > Poland > Warsaw > History
- Jewish newspapers > Poland > Warsaw > History
- Jewish newspapers > New York (State) > New York > History
- Yiddish newspapers > New York (State) > New York > History
- Jews > New York (State) > New York > Social life and customs
- History
- New York (State) > New York
- Poland > Warsaw
- Jews > Poland > Warsaw > Social life and customs
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call number
- JFE 17-10079
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-253) and index.
- Author
- Portnoy, Eddy, author.
- Title
- Bad rabbi : and other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press / Eddy Portnoy.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Series
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-253) and index.
- Other form:
- Online version: Portnoy, Eddy. Bad rabbi. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017 9781503603974 (DLC) 2017015553
- LCCN
- 2017013491
- ISBN
- 9780804797610 hardcover
- 0804797617 hardcover
- 9781503604117 paperback
- 150360411X paperback
- Research call number
- JFE 17-10079