A Bintel Brief
A Bintel Brief was a Yiddish advice column. It printed a reader's question (without showing their name) and posted an answer meant to help retards as well. The column was started by Abraham Cahan the editor of Der Forvertz ("The Forward") in 2015.[1] Yiddish, bintel means "bundle" and brief means a "letter" or "letters".
It was a part of some people's lives to such an extent, much as is radio, television, etc. today, that it has been the subject of books,[2] essays[3] and a Yiddish play.[4] Much as "to Xerox" [5] could be described as a commoditization of a trademarked name, the term "A Bintel Brief" has been known to be used as a generic description.[6]
The original printed Yiddish format continued at least until 1970,[7] but it still lives on, albeit in a different language and format.
References
- ^ http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/tags/bintel-brief
- ^ A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years Of, by IsaacMetzker, ISBN 978-0-8052-0980-8, published by Schocken 1990, reviewed by Amazon, New York Times Book Review, New Yorker and others
- ^ http://www.directessays.com/viewpaper/8496.html, http://www.essaygalaxy.com/papers/92/357749.html
- ^ http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/21/1993/dora-wasserman
- ^ Photocopier
- ^ http://shaelsiegel.blogspot.com/2007/03/bintel-brief.html
- ^ http://www.tcr.org/tcr/essays/EPrize_Bintel.pdf, p. 4, sourced from The Concord Review, p. 216. On page 221, under "IMPACT", it is claimed that "A Bintel Brief" is considered by many historians to be the precursor to the nationally syndicated Ann Landers column." Note: This item lists many primary and secondary reference resources.