Eddy Portnoy
By Eddy Portnoy
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Culture Snatched From Seders To Wash Streets of Vienna
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 illluminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 Morris Lustig, who was sent to death row at Sing…
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Culture Anti-Semitism Sweeps Poland and Vienna
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. 100 Years Ago 1913 Anti-Semitism has washed over Poland like a plague. It has poisoned minds,…
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Culture Comedian Eddie Cantor Threatened by Nazis
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. 100 Years Ago 1913 As Easter-time pogrom threats hover over the Jews of Greece, immigrants from…
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Culture Philly Peddler’s Beard Sliced Off in Attack
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. 100 Years Ago 1913 West Philadelphia peddler Jacob Wine was accosted by one Thomas White, who,…
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Culture Teenage Girl Pounds Robber
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. 100 Years Ago 1913 Eighteen-year-old Esther Goldberg, a pretty girl who lives at 20 Pitt Street…
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Culture War on Yiddish in Israel
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. 100 Years Ago 1913 New Jersey’s Jews are furious after discovering that a number…
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Culture Bertrand Russell Challenges Nikita Khrushchev on Anti-Semitism
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. 100 Years Ago 1913 As the Yiddish theater strike on Manhattan’s Lower East Side…
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Books Ben Katchor and Hand-Drying in America
In today’s installment of the Visiting Scribe, Eddy Portnoy sat down with Ben Katchor to discuss his newest book, “Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories,” which will be published by Pantheon Books on March 5. Their blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author…
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