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Joel Rinaldo (June 11, 1870,
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– December 23, 1956) was a restaurateur whose restaurant and hotel, Joel's Bohemia, near
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, was a Manhattan institution from 1902 to 1925.
Benjamin De Casseres Benjamin De Casseres (April 3, 1873 – December 7, 1945) (often DeCasseres) was an American journalist, critic, essayist and poet. He was born in Philadelphia and began working at the Philadelphia Press at an early age, but spent most of his prof ...
, "Joel's", ''
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Life

Rinaldo was born in New York City on June 11, 1870 to Marks Rinaldo and Minnie (Ellis) Rinaldo, immigrants from Poland ultimately of Portuguese Jewish origin.Peter Merritt Rinaldo, ''The Rinaldos from Poland: A Family History'

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/ref> He opened his restaurant "Joel's" in 1902, catering to artists, writers, revolutionaries, and other bohemianism, bohemians. In 1910, Rinaldo self-published his theory of evolution, "polygeneric theory", which hypothesized that each species was independently created when its time had come. In 1921, following Prohibition-based raids on his establishment, he published ''Psychoanalysis of the "Reformer": A Further Contribution to the Sexual Theory'' which purported to demonstrate that the passion for reform of their neighbors by those who favored prohibition was a neurosis akin to a passion for "rape" or "eating caviar". Rinaldo retired to Brooklyn in 1926 and died on December 23, 1956.


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Works

*''Rinaldo's Polygeneric Theory'', self-published (1910), hardcover *''Psychoanalysis of the "Reformer" A Further Contribution to the Sexual Theory'', preface by Andre Tridon, Lee Publishing Company (1921), 137 pages.


External links and further reading

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Benjamin De Casseres Benjamin De Casseres (April 3, 1873 – December 7, 1945) (often DeCasseres) was an American journalist, critic, essayist and poet. He was born in Philadelphia and began working at the Philadelphia Press at an early age, but spent most of his prof ...
, "Joel's", ''
The American Mercury ''The American Mercury'' was an American magazine published from 1924Staff (Dec. 31, 1923)"Bichloride of Mercury."''Time''. to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured w ...
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(July 1932) * Jan Whitaker, "Joel's bohemian refreshery", Restaurant-ing through history
July 17, 2008
American people of Portuguese-Jewish descent American people of Polish-Jewish descent 1870 births 1956 deaths American restaurateurs {{DEFAULTSORT:Rinaldo, Joel