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Forward ‘Everywhere, there was death’: The Forward's groundbreaking coverage of disaster in Ukraine — in the 1930s 1 May 2022
The Forward's groundbreaking coverage in the 1930s of the famine in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor, is highlighted. The Soviet government, under Joseph Stal...
1 May 2022
Forward How the Forward covered Babyn Yar through the decades 12 Mar 2022
The Forward has covered the Babyn Yar massacre in Ukraine, where Nazis killed over 33,000 Jews, since 1941. The initial report came from American corresponde...
12 Mar 2022
Forward ‘It’s so easy to lose touch’: Recovering the history of David Duchovny’s grandfather, a Yiddish writer 17 Oct 2021
David Duchovny, actor and author, revealed in an article that his grandfather, Moshe Duchovny, was a Yiddish language journalist. The Forward's archivist emb...
17 Oct 2021
Forward Timeline | How the Forward covered LGBTQ history 30 Jun 2021
The Forward, an American Jewish newspaper, did not prioritize significant events in LGBTQ history in its coverage. For example, the burning of the Hirschfeld...
30 Jun 2021
Forward We’re here, we’re queer, we’re Yiddish: LGBTQ stories, and silences, in the Forward archives 21 Jun 2021
This article explores the presence and absence of LGBTQ stories in the archives of the Jewish newspaper, The Forward. The author, a queer Yiddish archivist, ...
21 Jun 2021
Forward Behind Tucker Carlson’s white replacement rhetoric, a frightening antisemitic history 19 Apr 2021
Tucker Carlson's recent espousal of the Great Replacement Theory on Fox News has sparked controversy and raised concerns about its anti-Semitic history. The ...
19 Apr 2021
Forward When the Forward was in the vaccine business 21 Jan 2021
In 1947, the Forward played a significant role in promoting and executing a mass vaccination campaign against smallpox in New York City. The city's health co...
21 Jan 2021
Forward Eleanor Roosevelt’s close knish encounter of the Forward kind 29 Aug 2020
The Forward highlights Eleanor Roosevelt's connection to New York City and her involvement with Freedom House, an organization dedicated to supporting and de...
29 Aug 2020
Forward The Forward’s news (and Jews) on the Bowery 15 Aug 2020
The Forward, a socialist newspaper, covered the Great Depression and the Bowery district in New York City. During the Depression, selling apples became a pop...
15 Aug 2020
Forward Legacy Bintel: In 1906, a Jewish boy supporting his family risks death for wages 14 Aug 2020
This article discusses a letter from the Legacy Bintel Brief column, which was originally published in 1906 and offered advice to Jewish immigrants in the Un...
14 Aug 2020