BINTEL BRIEF LOVE & LONGING IN OLD NEW YORK GN DEC220376 Shortly after moving in

Shortly after moving in

Conveyed as a bleak first-person narrative with darkly humorous overtones

A collaboration between journalist Yazan Al-Saadi and stellar cartoonists from the region-including Tracy Chahwan

Isolated from those around him by cultural and language barriers

BINTEL BRIEF LOVE & LONGING IN OLD NEW YORK GN DEC220376 Shortly after moving in\'A Bundle of Letters\' was the enormously popular advice column of The Forward, the widely read Yiddish language newspaper begun in 1906 New York. Written by a diverse community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, these letters spoke to the daily heartbreaks and comedies of their new lives, capturing the hope, isolation, and confusion of assimilation. Drawn from these letters selected and translated by Liana Finck and brought to life in her