A Bintel Brief

York City at the end of the 19th Century. You are perplexed by daily

dilemmas, such as your daughter wanting to marry a non-Jew, which you

consider a shanda. You want to study English in night school, which your

husband considers a shanda. Where do you turn for advice?

You turn to the daily advice column, "A Bintel Brief," in the Yiddish

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