Chana Pollack is the Forward’s archivist. Contact her at pollack@forward.com.
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By Chana Pollack
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Life Throwback Thursday: Globetrotting Yiddish Reporter
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Born in Lithuania in 1900 and raised on the Lower East Side, Jean Khyene Jaffe was a globetrotting reporter with a 30-year career in journalism. After graduating from Hunter College and Columbia…
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Life Throwback Thursday: Moscow’s Yiddish Stage Star
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Born in 1897 to an artistic Jewish family in Warsaw, Yokheved-Yudes Minkova, garnered fame as part of the beloved Moscow State Jewish Theater troupe, known by the acronym GOSET and headed by…
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Life Throwback Thursday: Tennis Star in Men’s Shorts
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Helen Hull Jacobs, pictured here in 1933, was a world champion American women’s tennis player who ranked in the global top 10 from 1928 to 1939. Known for her powerful serve and…
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Life Throwback Thursday: Science Sister
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Click below for more. Professor Anna Weizmann is pictured here in her organic chemistry lab in 1938. The younger sister of Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, Anna was one of three female…
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Life Recalling Chana Mlotek, Mother of Yiddish Music
Before there were blogs and Wikipedia, there were archivists like Chana Mlotek, an expert in Yiddish ethnomusicology, whose memory was a trove of cultivated knowledge spanning fields of literature and history. Mlotek is pictured here (back row, third from right) in the 1960s in the Bronx, with a Yiddish-speaking mother’s group that was affiliated with…
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Life Throwback Thursday: The Wind Beneath His Wings
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Click below for more. Edith Bowie Hawks was the wind beneath her husband’s wings. Captain Frank Hawks was a famed aviator in the 1920s and ’30s. (A common phrase at the time…
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Life Throwback Thursday: She Interviewed Hitler
Welcome to the Sisterhood’s first installment of Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Click below for more. Dorothy Thompson, often called the “First Lady of American journalism,” is pictured here in 1927 on her honeymoon, traveling by caravan with her…
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News Does Haunting Photo Show Singin’ Jewish Twins?
I haven’t taken a survey on this, but I feel pretty confident that the secret shame of photo archivists is that drawer full of unidentified images — the “orphans,” in archive speak. Photos that stubbornly refuse to reveal any hint of who might be in them, where they may have been taken and, most important,…
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