LEADER 00000nam a22004695a 4500 
003    MWT 
005    20220704050627.1 
006    m     o  d         
007    cr cn||||||||| 
008    171027s2017    xxu    es     000 0 eng d 
020    9781503603974|q(electronic bk.) 
020    1503603970|q(electronic bk.) 
029    https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/
       csp_9781503603974_180.jpeg 
028 42 MWT11911581 
037    11911581|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 
040    Midwest|erda 
082 00 071.3089924|223 
099    eBook hoopla 
099    eBook hoopla 
100 1  Portnoy, Eddy,|eauthor. 
245 10 Bad rabbi :|band other strange but true stories from the 
       Yiddish press|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cEddy 
       Portnoy. 
264  1 [United States] :|bStanford University Press,|c2017. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
300    1 online resource 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
347    text file|2rda 
490 0  Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture 
506    Digital content provided by hoopla. 
520    Stories 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 
       butter side down in the dirt. These marginal Jews may have
       found their way into the history books far less frequently
       than their more socially upstanding neighbors, but there's
       one place you can find them in force: in the Yiddish 
       newspapers that had their heyday from the 1880s to the 
       1930s. Disaster, misery, and misfortune: you will find no 
       better chronicle of the daily ignominies of urban Jewish 
       life than in the pages of the Yiddish press. An 
       underground history of downwardly mobile Jews, Bad Rabbi 
       exposes the seamy underbelly of pre-WWII New York and 
       Warsaw, the two major centers of Yiddish culture in the 
       late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With true 
       stories plucked from the pages of the Yiddish papers, Eddy
       Portnoy introduces us to the drunks, thieves, murderers, 
       wrestlers, poets, and beauty queens whose misadventures 
       were immortalized in print. There's the Polish rabbi 
       blackmailed by an American widow, mass brawls at weddings 
       and funerals, a psychic who specialized in locating 
       missing husbands, and violent gangs of Jewish mothers on 
       the prowl-in short, not quite the Jews you'd expect. One 
       part Isaac Bashevis Singer, one part Jerry Springer, this 
       irreverent, unvarnished, and frequently hilarious 
       compendium of stories provides a window into an unknown 
       Yiddish world that was. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Yiddish newspapers|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory. 
650  0 Yiddish newspapers|zPoland|zWarsaw|xHistory. 
650  0 Jewish newspapers|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory. 
650  0 Jewish newspapers|zPoland|zWarsaw|xHistory. 
650  0 Jews|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xSocial life and customs.
650  0 Jews|zPoland|zWarsaw|xSocial life and customs. 
650  0 Electronic books. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/
       11911581?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 
856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/
       csp_9781503603974_180.jpeg