Chana Pollack
‘It’s so easy to lose touch’: Recovering the history of David Duchovny’s grandfather, a Yiddish writer
“It’s overwhelming, really,” David Duchovny said. “Just to think of his vitality, and his commitment, and obviously his playfulness, too.”
Timeline | How the Forward covered LGBTQ history
For all of us, sometimes the story we don’t think to look for is the one we most need to see.
We’re here, we’re queer, we’re Yiddish: LGBTQ stories, and silences, in the Forward archives
When it comes to LGBTQ Jews, our archives echo with vanished histories.
When the Forward was in the vaccine business
In April of 1947, readers of this publication flocked en masse to our building, rolled up their sleeves, and got stuck with a vaccine.
Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s zeyde was noted Yiddish writer
Meyer Blinken wrote about the insidious effects of poverty and was one of the few male Yiddish writers to ever write about women’s sexuality.
Eleanor Roosevelt’s close knish encounter of the Forward kind
Eleanor Roosevelt, an international political figure in her own right, was also very much a New Yorker.
The Forward’s news (and Jews) on the Bowery
The Forward has been reporting the difficult economic conditions of the country since it began.
Legacy Bintel: In 1906, a Jewish boy supporting his family risks death for wages
Letters sent to the Forward over 100 years ago still ring true today; in this one, a worker weighs his need for his salary against his safety
What Seth Rogen’s new movie gets right and wrong about the history of pickling
The true history of American pickles is one of murder, moral outrage and scandal.
When The Forward sponsored summer camp
As summer camps evolved into a tradition for Jewish children, The Forward reported on many of these camps, not only the ones they sponsored.