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Threatened to Shoot With His Pipe and That Saved His Life
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 20, 1912. Louis Pagnalia is a saloonkeeper from Philadelphia who was on the Titanic and who rescued himself with a remarkable idea. He himself described the incident: “We were all on deck. The women and the children were already in the lifeboats. Then the ship…
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How This Jewish Steerage Passenger Saved Himself
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 20, 1912. A Jewish man, Abraham Hyman, a steerage-deck passenger on the Titanic, tells a remarkable story about how he rescued himself: “I was asleep when the ship collided with the iceberg. Twenty minutes later, I was out of bed. By the time I got…
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What the Rescued Jewish Immigrants Have to Say
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 19, 1912. Twenty immigrants who were rescued from the Titanic are currently staying at the Hospitality Society located at 229 East Broadway. Five of them are Jewish; the rest are Christians and Muslims. Mr. Irving Lipschitz and Mr. Samuel Mason, representatives of the Hebrew Immigrant…
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Mrs. Straus Stayed With Her Husband
One of the drowned is Isidor Straus. Mrs. [Ida] Straus also drowned as she decided to lovingly die together with her husband rather than be rescued, according to reports by several passengers who were there. Robert W. Daniel, a banker who lives at 328 Chestnut St. n Philadelphia and who is one of the rescued,…
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The Titanic Disaster
This editorial was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 16, 1912. The heart bleeds for the hundreds of Titanic disaster victims. The civilized world is united in its mourning. One’s first impression and what floods the reader from the news reporting is that human emotion of sympathy. The Titanic, however, was the last word,…
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Weeping and Desperation in the Company’s Offices
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 16, 1912. Scenes of weeping and desperation took place yesterday all day long and through the night at the offices of the White Star Line located at 9 Broadway. A stream of people drawn there were besieging the clerks, demanding the latest news. These were…
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Mr. And Mrs. Straus Likely Not Among the Rescued
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 16, 1912. Among first-class passengers who have likely perished are also Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus. It appears that Mrs. Straus didn’t want to leave her husband and rejected the opportunity to be rescued herself by boarding a lifeboat. Isidor Straus was a prominent millionaire…
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The Terrifying Tragedy of the Titanic
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 16, 1912. The death throes of 1,254 people accompanied the mighty ship to its watery grave—Its first journey is its last—Its remarkable beginning is its sad end—Ships arrive too late to help—The Carpathia finds more than 800 women and children in lifeboats. Yesterday at 7.30…
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40 People Hurt at Strauses’ Memorial
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 24, 1912. Yesterday evening, a memorial was to be held for Mr. and Mrs. [Isidor] Straus, who died tragically on the Titanic. It was to occur at the Educational Alliance on East Broadway at the corner of Jefferson Street. Mr. Straus was president of the…
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Lower Deck Passengers Didn’t Stand a Chance
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 21, 1912. Among the many tragedies that are now being described by those who were rescued, this is one of the most horrible. It was described by one of the rescued sailors, whose name is being withheld at his request. “I saw it with my…
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New Hadassah Head Vows To Mend Fences
The women’s Zionist group Hadassah has appointed Janice Weinman as its new executive director/CEO, filling a position that had been vacant since 2009. Weinman, current president of the global children’s charity Kids in Distressed Situations, will begin at Hadassah in June, according to a statement from the group. Weinman follows Larry Blum, who became Hadassah’s…
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