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. Dr. Portnoy is Academic Advisor and Exhibitions Curator at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. This event is free and open to the public. If you need accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Ayla Cline at 607-255-6275 as soon as possible. The first 30 students with Cornell ID to arrive will receive a FREE copy of Eddy Portnoy's book Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press. A signing opportunity will follow the talk.
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