Chana Pollack is the Forward’s archivist. Contact her at [email protected].
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By Chana Pollack
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Culture Preserving Our Print Heritage On Eldridge Street
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…
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Culture From The Archive: Portrait Of Harold Bloom As A Young Man
It’s hard to imagine the legendary literary critic Harold Bloom, who died Monday at the age of 89, as a young man. This was largely by design. Bloom playfully projected the aura of a musty, Falstaffian ancient. But, before he became an expert on the English canon, his first language was Yiddish, and like many…
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Opinion Celebrate Sukkot With The Legendary Ushpizata
Sukkot, or shall we call it sukes: that’s the holiday with those DIY huts reminiscent of our wandering through the desert. It’s got a touch of glamping, festive hosting, sweet foods and upbeat singing, even mystical guests called Ushpizin. Traditionally, these guests are ancient, and all male: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David….
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Opinion Thank You Elizabeth Warren, For Bringing Our History To Today’s Debate
Crowds piled in to Washington Square Park in New York City’s shtetl of Greenwich Village Monday night to hear Senator Elizabeth Warren’s plan to set this country on a more just path. In outlining some of her anti-corruption ideals, listeners found the presidential candidate framing her contemporary governance wish-list within a historic context: The Triangle…
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Opinion Remembering the slaves who built Wall Street: A summer ‘azkore’ on Tisha B’av
Unlike for the rest of the world, summer is when Jews mourn — the destruction of our last ancient Temple, our subsequent diaspora, and our most recent devastating near-ruin. It is also the season when African Americans commemorate the Juneteenth anniversary of their freedom on these shores — and slavery’s catastrophic legacy. There’s a place…
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Life From The Archive: An Unlikely Romance Between A Jew And Nazi Ally
In the 1930s, a Jewish woman fell in love — with a Hitler sympathizer. Helga Steinfeld first appeared in the pages of the Forward for her outrageous decision to marry Rolf Von Reitzenstein-Steinach, a German noble, spy and Nazi sympathizer. Indeed, love can make us do crazy things. The two were together six years, and…
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Culture Remembering Arlene Bronstein: Paragon of Persistence and Grace
To speak of the quotidian in Yiddish we use the term yedes montik un donershtik, meaning literally, every Monday and Thursday. Arlene Bronstein took the folksy saying and wore a new groove in it; she spent the last nine years of her montik un donershtiks here at the Forward cataloguing photos, researching queries and generally…
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