Maya Sadhwani Nee
By Maya Sadhwani Nee
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Archive Eleanor Roosevelt’s close knish encounter of the Forward kind
The Forward is one of 57 libraries, museums and city agencies, contributing to a new app called Urban Archive, helping make historical materials engaging and accessible. This week, bring you a look at First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt was an international figure but much of her life and work happened in New York City. For…
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News Where the children played: Jewish Immigrant kids of New York and their games
The Forward is one of 57 libraries, museums and city agencies, contributing to a new app called Urban Archive, helping make historical materials engaging and accessible. Children take centerstage in the story of this archival image. Forward coverage reflected the cultural and political attitudes toward childhood and its games as they evolved for Jews and…
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Archive The Forward’s news (and Jews) on the Bowery
The Forward is one of 57 libraries, museums and city agencies, contributing to a new app called Urban Archive, helping make historical materials engaging and accessible. This week, we look at The Forward’s coverage of the Great Depression and New York’s Bowery district. As a socialist paper, The Forward covered the plight of the poor…
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Archive When The Forward sponsored summer camp
The Forward is one of 57 libraries, museums and city agencies, contributing to a new app called Urban Archive, helping make historical materials engaging and accessible. This week, we invite you to read all about summer camp. Jewish Americans have a long history of sending their children to camp and The Forward has always been…
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Community Working with Yiddish, I saw my own family’s linguistic story reflected
As a summer volunteer at the archive here at the Forward, I have been surrounded by many conversations about Yiddish, though few actually spoken in the language. In the stories of Yiddish, and the ways in which young Jewish-Americans are finding ways to reconnect to it, I saw my own family’s linguistic story reflected. When…
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Archive A Juneteenth l’chaim for African-American labor organizer Frank Crosswaith
The Forward is one of 57 libraries, museums and city agencies, contributing to a new app called Urban Archive, helping make historical materials engaging and accessible. For Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, we highlighted Frank Crosswaith, the founder of the Negro Labor Committee, whose public speaking and political engagement…
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