This is the Forward’s coverage of the Lower East Side, a neighborhood in Manhattan that was a center of Jewish immigrant culture in the 20th century.
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Culture Waiting on line on Christmas is a time-honored New York tradition — was it ever thus?
Once upon a time, lining up for food or some other essential was a sign of deprivation — now it's a status symbol
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Yiddish World Yizkor books and yentas: When New York City was a Yiddish town
Henry Sapoznik’s book is like “a raucous Brooklyn candy store full of sweets from NYC's vintage era.”
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Film & TV ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ sends The Thing to shul — and gives Jack Kirby credit
The Marvel film embraces Ben Grimm’s Jewish roots and pays moving tribute to the man who drew him
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Yiddish World What the Hasidic shtiebel meant for Jewish male immigrants
The intimate prayer room was often filled with camaraderie and a strong sense of belonging
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Yiddish World Re ‘A photo of my bubbe when Jewish stores still had Yiddish signs’ by Jennifer A. Stern
Two readers add their observations of the photo, taken on the lower East Side in the early 1930s
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Yiddish World A photo of my bubbe when Jewish stores still had Yiddish signs
As far as I know, this photograph is my family's only physical link to our Yiddish-speaking past
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Culture In the new Fantastic Four trailer, a glimpse of Yancy Street’s Yiddishkeit
Keep your eyes peeled in the new movie for challahs and tikkun olam
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Culture 50 years after its debut, ‘Hester Street’ reminds us what it means to be a Jew in America
Joan Micklin Silver's classic indie is a bittersweet fable of immigrant assimilation
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