To reach a new English-speaking generation of Jews, the children of those original Yiddish-speaking immigrants, a sister publication, the English-language Forward, was founded in 1990.
Founded 92 years ago for a readership made up mostly of Yiddish-speaking immigrants, The Forward saw its circulation rise to a daily peak of 238,000 in 1917.
The child of Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe, Mr. Gelbart did not start speaking English until he was 5.
Lewis was born in New York City, the son of Hyman and Clara Lewis, Yiddish-speaking Russian immigrants.
A visit there offers a different kind of escape, a voyage to an era when the Lower East Side bustled with peddlers and Yiddish-speaking immigrants.
Founded by Socialists, The Forward was a general-interest newspaper for Yiddish-speaking immigrants who cut, sewed, hawked and hauled.
Founded in 1914, the library's early history is grounded in the Yiddish-speaking immigrants who fled Europe at the turn of the 20th century.
His parents, Harry Scherr, a tailor, and Minnie, were Yiddish-speaking Russian immigrants who arrived in America in 1898.
These belong to the more devout, largely Ost-Juden, or Eastern Jews, which is to say Yiddish-speaking immigrants mostly from Poland and Russia.
The founding members were Yiddish-speaking immigrants, more traditional than Hamilton's existing English speaking Jewish community of around 250 families.
