The last print copies of the jdforward will roll off the presses in April or May. But this does not mark its end
, was named in honour of Eugene V. Debs, a five-time presidential candidate from the Socialist Party of America. The paper, and its readers, were so steeped in Yiddish that it did not publish an English edition until 1990. But it was not parochial. As Seth Lipsky, who launched that English edition, explains: “It was a general-interest daily in the Jewish language.” Unsurprisingly, it thrived on argument, and never shied from slaughtering a sacred cow.
The newspaper had an intimate side. It ran an advice column called “A Bintel Brief” , which began answering readers’ questions about their bewildering new country in 1906. The letters, and their answers, took a deeply Jewish, morally practical tone. “I am a ‘greenhorn’, only five weeks in the country,” explained one young man. “I come from Russia, where I left a blind father…I promised that I would send him the first money I earned in America.
Another correspondent, another sticky situation. He is “a Russian revolutionist and a free thinker” who is about to marry. The problem is that his in-laws are still hooked on the opiate of the masses. Should he stick to his principles and alienate them, or grit his teeth through a synagogue marriage? The’s advice—“there are times when it pays to give in to old parents”—will resonate with anyone who has endured overbearing elders.
But in an age of atheism and intermarriage, what is that soul, and how best to protect it? That is the beginning of an argument—one that Abraham Cahan would surely have loved."Chronicle of the golden land"
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