Fifth graders write — Why is Abraham Cahan, founder of the Forward, worth celebrating?
Students at Guggenheim Elementary honored Cahan for Jewish American Heritage Month
Students at Guggenheim Elementary honored Cahan for Jewish American Heritage Month
Joan Micklin Silver's classic indie is a bittersweet fable of immigrant assimilation
Isaac Metzker was the driving force behind the Forward's Seeking Relatives and Bintel Brief columns
Henry James makes a cameo appearance in Jerome Charyn's 'Ravage & Son,' though James might not have loved the novel
On the Lower East Side, Ab Cahan is once again the Pulitzer of Yiddish Land, the William Randolph Hearst of the Jewish ghetto
In ‘The Imported Bridegroom,’ a century-old story still feels relevant
Here are the people who’ve made headlines and history each year since the Forward was born
Read this article in Yiddish. Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Gennady Estraikh Academic Studies Press, $119, 354 pp In the history of American journalism, the Forverts is a genuine outlier. Over the course of the first half of the last century, the…
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