A review by therainbowshelf
A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York by Liana Finck

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I found this while looking for immigrant experiences books for work, and thought it was a super interesting read. It’s filled with abridged letters from Jewish immigrants / first generation Jewish Americans from a Yiddish-language newspaper in the early 1900s and the help column’s responses. I wish the explanation and history wasn’t in the back of the book, but I learned some cool Jewish history to surprise my Jewish family with.