JL;DR SUMMARY Dr. Eddy Portnoy, a Senior Researcher at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, explores intriguing tales from the Yiddish press in his book "Bad Rabbi and Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press," shedding light on the peculiar aspects of Jewish culture in pre-WWII New York and Warsaw. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.