Created by Abraham Cahan in 1906, the advice column ran as the most enduring feature of the New York Yiddish newspaper for over seven decades. This study takes a closer look at the letters and responses to thereby revealing the hardships of uprooted Eastern European Jews. In an uncharted environment they turned to the column for guidance. In his answers, the editor of was always sympathetic, yet pragmatic, encouraging assimilation and ethnic group solidarity, thus paving the way for the readers to become accepted Jewish Americans.weiterlesen