Lillian Swanson
By Lillian Swanson
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News Paying Tribute To the Fire’s Pained Legacy
For a list of events commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, click here. Piece by piece, the everyday blouses were assembled by hand, crafted in small steps from cuffs to collars, from basting to buttons. In cramped quarters, garment factory workers stitched the seams, fitted the sleeves and attached the lace as hundreds of $3…
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News Nameless No More, Last Six Fire Victims Identified
For a list of events commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, click here. Max Florin, whose young visage was published on the inside pages of the Forverts in the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, has been named in an HBO Films video as one of the six unknowns who were buried in a…
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Life The Timeless Lessons of Broadway’s ‘Driving Miss Daisy’
Prejudice is so easy to embrace when it’s seen at a distance, and nearly impossible to sustain when viewed up close. Thus, in the story of “Driving Miss Daisy,” the revival now playing on Broadway, we watch a 72-year-old Southern Jewish widow drop her guard and learn over the decades to trust her black chauffeur….
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News An Editor of Commanding Presence
All About Ab (Cahan) from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. Fannie Jacobson remembers Abraham Cahan as a brilliant man who wrote like a dream and had a commanding presence in what was then the Forward’s headquarters on East Broadway. His special lair was the newsroom on the ninth floor of the 10-story tower. But he…
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Life L’dor V’dor: Writing the Immigrant Experience
A packed house of about 200 greeted Forward contributor Ilan Stavans and Pete Hamill Thursday night at the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side for a discussion of Stavans’s new book, “Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing” (Library of America). Stavans, who came to the United States in 1985 from Mexico and teaches…
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