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A Philadelphia Jew on the Sunken Titanic
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 19, 1912. His name is on the list of the missing — Just last Monday, his wife received a postcard from him saying he was on his way home. Nathan Goldsmith was a passenger aboard the unfortunate ship, the Titanic, which sunk. His name is…
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11 Jewish Names Among Rescued Steerage Passengers
This list was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 18, 1912. 11 Jewish Names Among Rescued Steerage Passengers Augusta Abramson Mary Bukstum Leye Oks Tili Oks Emily Bakhman Gershon Kahn Mini Guselman Khane Manman S. Dshablin Aksel Sheyn Jewish Steerage Passengers Who Are Missing E. Aronson Nathan Goldsmith K. Bakstum Abraham Herman Z. Zlatshevski…
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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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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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Capitalist ‘Hurry Up,’ and the Titanic
This editorial was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 18, 1912. First impressions of the horrendous accident cause a heightened awareness of one’s humanity. The victims died suffering hideous death throes. People weep and keen and rend their clothes ritually over the loss of their loved ones. At a time such as this, who…
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Mystery Shrouds Macy’s Titanic Plaque
It was a simple yet generous gesture. About 5,000 employees of Macy’s department store contributed what little they could afford to create a memorial plaque for their boss, Isidor Straus, and his wife, Ida, who died in the Titanic disaster. “Their lives were beautiful and their deaths glorious,” read the inscription on the bronze bas-relief…
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Chicago Hillel Feuds With Federation
Jewish federation officials in Chicago have fired the head of the University of Chicago’s Hillel and the Hillel’s entire board in a bitter governance dispute that could result in two umbrella Jewish student groups dueling it out on campus. The dismissed Hillel leadership wanted independence from the Chicago federation, which controls all Hillels in Illinois…
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Making Matzo in a Chametz-Free Zone
From the Kalish archives: In a story that originally aired on WNYC, Jon Kalish takes us inside a Shmura matzo bakery in Boro Park, Brooklyn. <strong>Subscribe to Forward podcasts on iTunes</strong>
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