Eddy Portnoy
By Eddy Portnoy
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News Jewish Waiter Beaten for Praising Adolf Hitler on Bronx Corner
1913 •100 years ago The Death of Elyokem Tsunzer One of the world’s most beloved Yiddish poets, Elyokem Tsunzer, has died at the age of 77. Renowned for his folksy poems, many of which were set to music and sung by millions of Jews, Tsunzer passed after laying ill for two weeks. On his deathbed,…
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Opinion Don’t Ban ‘Y-Word’ From British Soccer
“There is a problem in my country… and this problem is the Jew,” Borat chanted famously. But it may as well be David Baddiel singing. Who is David Baddiel, you ask? He is a mid-table British comedian who has initiated a campaign to expunge what he calls the “Y-word” from British football chants. The Y-word,…
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News Father Arrested on Bigamy Charge
1913 •100 years ago Father Arrested on Bigamy Charge Isaac Tenenbaum, a resident of Vineland, N.J. who immigrated to the United States 19 years ago, has been happily married for 17 years and has four children. All was well and good until the wife he left 19 years ago, in Berditchev, in Eastern Europe, showed…
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News Peddler Bound, Gagged and Robbed of $21 in Alphabet City
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75 and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating and edifying clippings from the Jewish past. 1913 •100 years ago Peddler Bound and Gagged Jacob Furman, an old clothes peddler who lives…
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News Does Zionism Have a Future With Jews?
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 1913 •100 years ago The Tragedy of Zionism As the curtain rises on the…
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News Anti-Semitism Taints Leo Frank Murder Case
1913 •100 years ago Anti-Semitism Affects Frank Case A committee has been organized to help the cause of Leo Frank, a 24-year-old Jewish factory manager who has been sentenced to death for murdering a 13-year-old girl by the name of Mary Phagan. Frank’s supporters claim that he is innocent and that the anti-Semitic air of…
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News All German Jews Forced To Change Names to Israel and Sarah
1913 •100 years ago King of the Horse Poisoners Sings Joseph Tablinsky is known on Manhattan’s Lower East Side as the “king of the horse poisoners.” Not long ago, Tablinsky was in court, about to get sent up to Sing Sing on a 10-year stint. He made a deal with the judge to reveal everything…
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News Who Are These Singing Twin Sisters?
Forward Looking Back brings you the photos and stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75 and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating and edifying clippings from the Jewish past. 1913 •100 years ago ‘Dopey Benny’ Unhappy With Police “Dopey Benny,” a well-known gangster…
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