A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters From the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

"I was raised on A Bintel Brief. Abe Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, who conducted the A Bintel Brief column, knew everything. Everything. Abe Cahan makde what I am today: an American citizen. And Isaac Metzker has reminded me of a debt I never can repay. Maybe you will help me. By reading this wonderful, wonderful, wonderful book. And telling other people to read it. You will be doing them and every other American a service. You will be earning a mitzvah" -- Jerome Weidman, New York Times Book Review.