Bibliograph

Bad rabbi, and other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press, Eddy Portnoy

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Bad rabbi, and other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press, Eddy Portnoy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-253) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bad rabbi

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

980346751

Responsibility statement

Eddy Portnoy

Series statement

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Sub title

and other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press

Table Of 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

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