Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press AUTH-10746144 ISBN10: 1695617282

ISBN10: 1695617282

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Author: Peter Ridd

ISBN13: 9781622304172

and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento

Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press AUTH-10746144 ISBN10: 1695617282Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird Jews who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their bread landed