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November 27, 2009

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:32:00 EST

100 Years Ago in the Forward: Avrom Shulman, a resident of Bayonne, N.J., was arrested for running an illegal gambling casino in the basement of the Beys Yosef synagogue on West 20th Street in Bayonne.

November 20, 1989

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:49:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: In front of her colleagues and a group of electronics experts, Dr. Louisa Rabinovitz performed an experiment that entailed electrocuting a rabbit and then bringing it back to life by sending another electrical charge through its body using a machine that the young doctor invented.

November 13, 1989

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:44:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: When a taxi cab pulled up outside Max Shneier’s Suffolk Street Saloon, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, at midnight, a few men got out and walked into the saloon with revolvers in hand and started shooting. The customers dove onto the floor and into corners, trying to avoid the bullets that were whizzing by; the bullets ended up in the walls and in beer and whiskey barrels

November 6, 2009

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:34:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: New York City police detectives are working overtime on the Lower East Side to catch a gang of horse poisoners that has been plaguing the Jewish quarter for some time. During the past year, for example, more than 250 horses were poisoned on the Lower East Side alone, and the gang’s nefarious handiwork has affected many Jews.

October 30, 2009

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:56:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: Still in critical condition not long after being attacked by hired goons while he was on the picket line in front of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Joe Zigfeld lies in a hospital bed. His attackers, however, are roaming freely.

October 23, 2009

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:24:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: Jewish academics in Austria have been, for a while already, fighting a battle to have Jews recognized as a distinct nationality.

October 16, 2009

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:17:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: The general strike of the neckwear makers was going smoothly, and no violence had occurred.

October 9, 2009

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:55:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: For each day that has passed during the strike at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company something unusual has happened.

October 2, 2009

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:58:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: A Bintel Brief has a letter written by an embittered man who ran into trouble getting together a minyan for his son’s bris.

September 25, 2009

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:00:00 EST

The following is an excerpt from Moyshe Olgin’s review of Dovid Bergelson’s debut novel, “At the Station

September 18, 2009

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:05:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: Manuel Rosa, an “Indian chief” who performs the “war dance” onstage at Inman’s Casino in Brooklyn’s Coney Island, attacked Sam Friedman, a waiter, during a recent performance.

September 11, 2009

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:26:00 EST

100 Years Ago In the Forward: Ida Feitelson’s father is upset, and with good reason. The attractive 17-year-old brunette, in the country for only three years, has disappeared without a trace.

September 4, 2009

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:48:00 EST

100 Years Ago in the Forward: A letter we received from our correspondent in Galicia, Poland, details some unusual activity involving local Jews.

August 28, 2009

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:11:00 EST

100 Years Ago in the forward: It’s busy season in baseball, and the American people are obsessed. It’s no exaggeration to say that young and old, rich and poor, ignorant and highly educated all wait impatiently to see the sports pages in their morning papers, where they can find the scores of yesterday’s games.

August 21, 2009

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:06:00 EST

100 Years Ago in the forward: W An open letter from Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh, also known as Mendele Moykher Sforem (Mendele the Bookseller), appeared recently in a Yiddish newspaper in Russia in which the great Yiddish writer charged New York’s Hebrew Publishing Company with reprinting his works without permission and without any compensation whatsoever.

August 14, 2009

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:12:00 EST

100 Years Ago in the forward*: The current strike of the 200 ladies waistmakers at the Rosen Brothers factory on East 10th Street in New York City has turned into an all-out war, with professional brawlers and rented bums attacking the striking workers on a daily basis. In the hallway where the strikers congregate, one sees numerous workers with bandaged heads and limbs.

August 7, 2009

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:58:00 EST

100 Years Ago in the Forward: Two sisters, 18- and 19-year-old Rebecca and Annie Abrams, were sitting in a Philadelphia park, relaxing and talking with a friend, when suddenly they were attacked by a group of hobos.

July 31, 2009

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:40:00 EST

100 Years Ago in the forward: Tisha B’Av is typically a time when Jews go to cemeteries to remember their dead and to mourn the tragedy of the destroyed Temples in Jerusalem. It was no different this year, when some 5,000 Jews descended on Brooklyn’s Washington Cemetery

July 24, 2009

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:51:00 EST

100 Years Ago in the forward Unemployed worker Harry Rosenthal was hungry and thought it would be easy to lie down in the street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and pretend he was dying of hunger. Police on Elizabeth Street bought his act and had him brought to the station, where he was fed and given quite a few donations for his “starving wife and four young children” — even from some of the detectives. This worked so well that Rosenthal thought he’d try it closer to home, in Brooklyn’s Brownsville.

July 17, 2009

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:27:00 EST

100 Years Ago in the forward: Jumping up onto a tabletop in the mess hall of Ellis Island, one of the immigrants yelled out: “No one could eat breakfast today.