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Forward, The: From Immigrants to Americans |
Email This Page | | Filmmaker: Linda Matchan and Marlene Booth |
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Price includes Public Performance License. |
An extraordinary human story of the world's most successful Yiddish-language newspaper, the Jewish Daily Forward. From its founding in 1897, the Forward served not only as a source of information, but also as a teacher and counselor to hundreds of thousands of immigrants. During its heyday in the 1920's it boasted a quarter of a million readers nationwide and was considered a major metropolitan daily paper. Today, with few Yiddish-speaking readers, the Forward's circulation and its future is uncertain. Yet it goes on, published as a weekly by a small staff of aging, indomitable, Yiddish speaking men.
Running time: 58 min, Year released: 1989
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: 16mm,VHS
ISBN: 1-55974-077-9
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up
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This title can also be found in: Cultural Studies, Europe, History, Immigrant Experience, Jewish Culture & History, Judaism, Literature and Literary Portraits, Religion, U.S. History |
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