Chana Pollack is the Forward’s archivist. Contact her at [email protected].
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By Chana Pollack
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Archive Pride of Judea Children’s Home
The Forward is one of 57 libraries, museums and city agencies, contributing to a new app called Urban Archive, helping make historical materials engaging and accessible. This summer, we were inspired by this photo from the Pride of Judea Children’s Home residents on their way to their summer beach home. We dove into the home’s…
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Archive A 4th of July walk with The Forward
The Forward is one of 57 libraries, museums and city agencies, contributing to a new app called Urban Archive, helping make historical materials engaging and accessible. To celebrate the Fourth of July, we took a look at some of the most American, patriotic Forward photos of New York and arranged them into a walkable story….
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Archive Yiddish Coney Island
The Forward is one of 57 libraries, museums and city agencies, contributing to a new app called Urban Archive, helping make historical materials engaging and accessible. To celebrate the beginning of summer, we highlighted the Brooklyn beach-neighborhood of Coney Island, one of the most iconic New York places. Read all about its fascinating history as…
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Archive A Juneteenth l’chaim for African-American labor organizer Frank Crosswaith
The Forward is one of 57 libraries, museums and city agencies, contributing to a new app called Urban Archive, helping make historical materials engaging and accessible. For Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, we highlighted Frank Crosswaith, the founder of the Negro Labor Committee, whose public speaking and political engagement…
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News ‘You read the Forward backward’: 15 readers recall their dads’ love for our paper (and that joke)
Pat Koch Thaler, whose brother Ed went on to become Mayor of New York, recalled their dad, an Austro-Hungarian immigrant furrier, falling asleep with The Forward on his lap. Their mother, she said, saved “the paper after it was read to put on the kitchen floor after she washed it before Shabbat. “ Richard Hammerman…
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Opinion Some koved for covid
Previous Article Next Article Like a favorite bra or gentlemen’s truss, Yiddishland during the pandemic continues to offer this Yiddish-head the greatest uplift, providing some virtual koved during covid. Given shelter at home rules, you’d think a Yiddish svive (reading group) might be the first casualty. We usually gear up with a nice selection of…
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News ‘She helped me learn Yiddish reading the Forward:’ 16 readers recall their mothers’ love for our paper
Raquel Bakalar, a Cuban immigrant who grew up in Los Angeles, remembers her mom proudly pointing out her name as a solver of the newspaper’s Yiddish word puzzles. Linda Galler, a law professor at Hofstra University, said her mom used the Forward to teach her Yiddish as a teenager. And Betty Baumel recalls the Sunday…
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Archive Mit mazl geyert zikh! It’s our 123rd birthday!
On April 22, 1897, The Forward published our very first issue. The one-page sheet in Yiddish costing a penny carried reports from the Middle East war front, accounts of Cuban unrest and stories of a steam-fitters’ strike in New York. The headlines held an enormous amount of news and information. “From the Class Struggle: Locked…
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