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This event is in partnership with the Museum at Eldridge Street. It will take place on Thursday, September 30 at 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT. Register here. Join the filmmakers and Editor-in-Chief of the Forward in a conversation about this historic documentary. From its founding in New York in 1897, the Forward served…
This talk will take place on Thursday, May 20 at 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT. Click here to register. Nearly 200 languages are spoken by New York City’s diverse citizens. They read in their own language, too – 95 ethnic and foreign-language newspapers circulate every day in the city. Printing news from the…
This piece originally appeared on the Urban Archivist. Newspaper collections are not always the most impartial historical documents, but they provide a unique account of past events, both important and mundane, as primary resources. Since the vast majority of our partners’ collections are architecturally-focused, the two documentary-style newspaper collections that are available on our platform…
Join us for a special virtual tour with Untapped New York and the Museum at Eldridge Street for a chance to view the museum’s latest exhibition “Pressed: Images from the Jewish Daily Forward.” Forward archivist Chana Pollack and Museum at Eldridge Street archivist and curator Nancy Johnson will lead this tour through the archive press…
Join the Museum at Eldridge Street on February 20 at 11:00am for a special family program where they’ll take a look at selections from the exhibition Pressed: Images from the Jewish Daily Forward. Children will get the chance to examine photographic prints and historic pages from the Forward newspaper and make their own works of…
Join us at a special open house at the Museum at Eldridge Street for a chance to view its latest exhibition “Pressed: Images from the Jewish Daily Forward.” On January 21 from 6 to 8 p.m., discover the treasured metal plates used to print images in the newspaper back in the day, along with actual…
Join Forward archivist Chana Pollack at Yiddish New York, where she will lead not one, but two discussions on how the storied publication covered important moments in history. Yiddish New York, a Yiddish culture festival featuring films, educational workshops, performing arts, art exhibitions and more, will run from December 21 to 26 on the Lower…
Jackie Kennedy holding up a copy of The Forward; animation characters created by the Fleischer studios; Lower East Side residents in a matza riot; everyday life in Algeria, Mandate Palestine, the Upper West Side of New York and the ball fields and boxing rings of America. All of these images were created by press plates,…
If you come to the Museum at Eldridge Street to see the Forward’s old, photo-engraved press plates dating from the 1920s to the 1950s pressed into dreamy photo-mechanical prints, shot through with half-tone black and white inky dots, you’ll get to see how our paper, and most newspapers, once presented photographs. Since metal type and…
Before Jews could post about #Sukkot on Instagram, they saw it documented in our pages. From tenements in New York to small towns in Poland and Algeria, the Forward’s cameras have roamed the world for over a century, capturing the observance of ancient rites in growing Jewish communities. This year, we’ve combed the archives to…
