Liana Finck
Liana Finck is an emerging graphic novelist. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Brussels in 2009-10 and is a Six Points Fellow in New York. She publishes in The Forward Newspaper and Tablet Magazine. Her graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco. Read more about her here.
Articles by Liana Finck
Changing Times, Changing Letters, and Moving Forward
Abraham Cahan loved Yiddish, but he was not afraid of change. He urged his readers to be less religious, and to ...
Finding a Story to Tell
I did not mean to fall in love with the Bintel Brief letters. I grew up Jewish in the New York suburbs ...
The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief
In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the Forward , to complain that her watch ...
My Influences Are Showing
I keep a collection in my head of the names of stories, movies, pictures that seem perfect to me. They ...
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 ...
A Bintel Brief: A Bundle of Letters
This is the first page of a comic book I’m working on. It’s based on the Bintel Brief, a popular Yiddish ...