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Film & TV How To Make a New Yiddish Film
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. The first words in the trailer for the new Yiddish-language film “The Pin” are “Ikh ken nit khapn dem otem” — “I can’t catch my breath.” The movie, currently playing in New York, takes place primarily in a barn in an unknown location during the Second…
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News Jewish Pimp From Brownsville Faces Long Arm of Justice
1913 •100 years ago Verdict Awaited in Pimping Trial After days of deliberation, the jury in the trial of Avrom Belkin was still unable to come to a decision. On trial for forcing a young woman into prostitution, Minsk-born Belkin claimed he was innocent. Annie Jacobs, the girl in question, testified against him and described…
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Life Throwback Thursday: She Interviewed Hitler
Welcome to the Sisterhood’s first installment of Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Click below for more. Dorothy Thompson, often called the “First Lady of American journalism,” is pictured here in 1927 on her honeymoon, traveling by caravan with her…
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News Man Murders Wife, Eats Blintzes
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes unusual clippings from the Jewish past. 1913 •100 years ago Striker Killed in Philadelphia The Jews of Philadelphia are furious…
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Culture The Education of Abraham Cahan (and Seth Lipsky)
All About Ab (Cahan) from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. The Rise of Abraham Cahan By Seth Lipsky Schocken, 240 pages, $26 On the morning of August 24, 1929, an Arab mob attacked the Jewish population of Hebron. Homes were pillaged, synagogues were desecrated, and scores of people were murdered or maimed. In the final…
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Culture Ab Cahan, the Jewish Newspaperman Who Kept the World Moving Forward
A portrait of Abraham Cahan is the first thing that greets a visitor to the Forward in New York City. It attracted me from the moment that I, then a young newspaperman in my midthirties, first stopped by the paper’s editorial rooms. It was early in 1983. Published in Yiddish and known as the Forverts,…
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Culture Sensation Rocks the Leo Frank Murder Trial
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating and edifying clippings from the Jewish past. 1913 •100 years ago Sensation at the Frank Trial A man who hopes to be a…
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Culture Wayward Husband Returns to Kill Ex-Wife in Shocking Murder-Suicide
1913 • 100 years ago Murder in the Rosenthal Home Morris and Bessie Rosenthal had a good business and a good life with their six small children. But he fell in love with another woman, and left his wife and kids to move to Chicago with his new love. Just before he left, he sold…
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