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Liana Finck

By Liana Finck

The Schmooze
My Influences Are Showing

Earlier this week, Liana Finck let us peek behind the curtain at the source material for her comic based on A Bintel Brief. She showed us the first two pages and the second story. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish…

By Liana Finck Jan 27, 2012 | 3 min read
The Schmooze
The Wedding Guest

Liana Finck is adapting old Yiddish press self-help columns into a book. This week, she’s letting us peek behind the curtain at her source material. On Monday, she looked at the first two pages of her comic. Today, she takes a look at the second story. Her blog posts are being featured this week on…

By Liana Finck Jan 25, 2012 | 3 min read
The Schmooze
A Bintel Brief: A Bundle of Letters

Liana Finck’s Bintel Brief comic is currently being serialized in the Forward. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: This is the first page of a comic book I’m…

By Liana Finck Jan 23, 2012 | 3 min read
Culture
Bintel Briefs Way Ahead of Times

The explosive popularity of the Yiddish advice column published in the Forverts from 1906 paved the way first for a genre and then an entire industry. Although it seems self-evident to us now, writing to a newspaper for advice was a revolutionary idea. Click to view a slideshow. The Bintel Brief (literally “bundle of letters”)…

By Liana Finck Dec 30, 2011 | < 1 min read

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