David Mikics,Tablet Magazine
What the world really needs is a study of dumb Jews, Peter Gay remarked while disparaging a book about how the Jewish genius had, or so the author claimed,invented modernity. Eddy Portnoy in rank Rabbi: And Other Strange But steady Stories From the Yiddish Press has approach along to reply Gay's request. rank Rabbiexplores the sensational offerings of the Yiddish newspapers in both America and Eastern Europe, which featured, and Portnoy says,multitudes of mediocre Jews, many of whom lived on the verge of modernity, or yet were often backward and stupid. You won't meet any Einsteins here,but...
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