Forward (Yiddish: ??????????? ?, translit.Ã, Forverts ), formerly known as The Jewish Daily Forward , is an American magazine published monthly in New York City for Jewish-American viewers. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily, today The Forward is the first digital publication with online reporting alongside monthly magazines in English and Yiddish. The Advanced Perspective of world and national news and its reporting on Jewish perspectives in modern America has made it one of the most influential American Jewish publications. The Forward is published by an independent nonprofit association. It has a politically progressive editorial focus.
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Origins
The first issue of Forverts appeared on April 22, 1897, in New York City. The paper was founded by a group of about 50 Yiddish-speaking socialists who organized themselves about three months earlier as the Publishing Association Forward. The name of the newspaper, as well as its political orientation, was borrowed from the German Social Democratic Party and its organ VorwÃÆ'¤rts .
Forverts is a substitute for the New York Yiddish New York socialist newspaper, In the Tsaytung Arbeter (The Workman Paper), a weekly founded in 1890 by the new Jewish union movement centered in United Hebrew Trades as a vehicle for bringing socialist ideas and trade unions to immigrants who do not speak English. This paper has been merged into a new Yiddish daily called The Dos Abend Blatt (The Evening Paper) as a weekend supplement when it was launched in 1894 under the auspices of the Socialist Workers' Party (SLP). As this publication established itself, it was under increasing political pressure from the de facto head of the SLP, Daniel De Leon, who sought to maintain a rigid ideological line with respect to its contents. This centralized political pressure is the driving factor for a new publication.
Chief among dissident socialists of the Continuing Publishing Association is Louis Miller and Abraham Cahan. The founding fathers of The Forward were quickly listed in the ranks of a new rival socialist party founded in 1897, the American Social Democratic Party, founded by the famous national leader of the 1894 American Railway. The union strike, Eugene V. Debs, and Victor L. Berger, a teacher and publisher of German-language newspapers from Milwaukee. The two joined the SDP in July 1897.
Despite this political resemblance, Miller and Cahan differed on the political orientation of the newspaper and Cahan left after just four months to join the Commercial Advertisers' staff, the well-established Republican newspaper also based in New York City.
For the next four years Cahan remained outside the Forward Office, studying newspaper trades in a financially successful setting. He just came back, he later recalled in his memoirs, on the promise of "absolute strength" on the editorial table.
The circulation of the paper grew rapidly, parallel to the rapid growth of Yiddish-speaking population in the United States. In 1912, the circulation was 120,000, and by the late 1920s/early 1930s, The Forward was a leading US metropolitan daily with a massive influence and a national circulation of over 275,000 although this had dropped to 170,000 on in 1939. as a result of changes in US immigration policies that restricted the immigration of the Jews to a lesser extent.
Early on, The Forward defends the union and moderate democratic socialism. This paper is a significant participant in the activities of the International Women's Garment Workers Union; Benjamin Schlesinger, former president of ILGWU, became general manager of the newspaper in 1923, then returned to the presidency in 1928. This paper was also an early supporter of David Dubinsky, Schlesinger's eventual successor.
The most famous writer in Yiddish Forward is Isaac Bashevis Singer, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature. although other prominent political and socialist figures, such as Leon Trotsky and Morris Winchevsky, also wrote for him.
Modern time
In 1962 the circulation fell to 56,126 daily and 59,636 Sunday, and in 1983 the newspaper was published only once a week, with an English supplement. In 1990, the English supplement became an independent weekly that in 2000 had a circulation of 26,183, while Yiddish weekly had a circulation of 7,000 and fell.
As the influence of the Socialist Party in American politics and the Jewish community diminished, the paper merged with the American liberal flow despite maintaining a social democratic orientation. The English version has some standing in the Jewish community as an outlet of liberal policy analysis. For the period in the 1990s, conservatives appeared in the English edition of this newspaper, but the break from tradition did not last long. (A handful of laid-off conservatives from The Forward later helped find modern New York Sun .)
The Yiddish edition has recently enjoyed a slight increase in circulation as language courses have become more popular among students; circulation has reached about 5,500. Boris Sandler, one of the most significant contemporary secular writers in Yiddish, was an editor of Yiddish Forward for 18 years, until March 2016; the new editor that replaces it is Rukhl Schaechter.
From 2013 to 2017, before the current format as a monthly magazine, The Forward is published as a newspaper in a separate English weekly and two weekly edition of Yiddish, and online daily. Each is effectively an independent publication with its own content. Jane Eisner became the first female editor in the head of English Forward in June 2008. The previous editor-in-chief was J.J. Goldberg, who served from 2000 to 2007; since then he has been an editor in general. This paper maintains the center left editorial position.
In August 2015, The Forward received widespread attention to reporting from Iran at a time when it was politically charged America, as the US Congress was raising votes on an agreement reached the previous month to limit Tehran's nuclear capability in return for revoking oil sanctions and international finance. Assistant Managing Editor Larry Cohler-Esses is, in the words of The New York Times, "The first journalist of a pro-Israeli Jewish American publication granted an Iranian visa since 1979."
For several years, there was also the Russian edition. The Forward website describes its formation: "In the fall of 1995, the Russian edition of Forward was launched, under the editor of Vladimir" Velvl "Yedidowich.The decision to launch Russia Continue in the crowded market of Russian-language journalism in New York follows the approach to the Forward Association by a number of intellectual leaders in the rapidly growing migrant community who expressed an interest in adding a very Jewish voice, but with a secular, socio-democratic orientation and respect for the cultural dimensions of Jewish life.
The Russian edition was sold to RAJI (Russian American Jew for Israel) in 2004, although at first the name was kept. Unlike his English counterpart, the Russian edition and his readers are more sympathetic to the right wing. In March 2007, the name was changed to Forum .
Around the same time in 2004, the Forward Association also sold its interest in WEVD to the Walt Disney Company sports division, ESPN.
The name of the publication is shortened to The Forward in April 2015.
Starting July 2016, Forward began publishing a monthly magazine. The last published newspaper is June 30, 2016 edition.
Important columns
For 24 years, The Forward is the home of the popular "Philologos" column. Now runs on Mosaic .
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Daily Jewish Building Forward
At the height of its popularity, The Forward set up a ten-story office building on 175 East Broadway on the Lower East Side, designed by architect George Boehm and completed in 1912. It is a prime location, across the street from Seward Park. The building is decorated with marble columns and stained glass panels and windows. The facade features an engraved portrait of reliefs from Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (who co-wrote, with Marx, the Communist Manifesto ), and Ferdinand Lassalle, founder of the first mass German labor party. The fourth relief depicts a person whose identity has not been clearly defined, and has been identified as Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Liebknecht, or August Bebel. In the real estate boom of the 1990s, the building was converted into condominiums.
Forward 50
The "Forward 50" is a list of fifty Jewish-Americans "who have made a significant impact on Jewish stories last year", published annually as editorial opinion of The Forward newspaper since 1994. This list is initiative from Seth Lipsky, founding editor of English Forward .
According to the magazine's website, this is not a scientific study, but a staff member's opinion, aided by a nomination from readers. The Forward does not support, or endorse any of the individuals mentioned in the list. Ratings are divided into different categories (which may vary from year to year): Top Choice, Politics, Activism, Religion, Community, Culture, Philanthropy, Scandal, Sports, and New in 2010, Food.
The list also includes Jews whose impact last year has been dramatic and destructive.
Footnote
Further reading
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American Jewish History . 96 (1): 1-31. JSTORÃ, 23887781. - Peiser, Jaclyn (October 8, 2017). "The Rhythm of Anti-Semitism Gives The Forward New Resolve". The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331.
External links
- Official website (in English)
- Official website (Yiddish)
- Transition from Russian Forward to Forum
- Online edition, searchable Advanced from Historical Jewish Press
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