American Press Lauds ‘jewish Forward’ on 70th Anniversary

The services rendered by the Jewish Daily Forward, largest Yiddish newspaper in the world, to the “hundreds of thousands of Yiddish-speaking people who have enriched American life in this century” are emphasized in an editorial in the World Journal Tribune congratulating the Forward on the 70th anniversary of its existence. Similar articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Post and other newspapers.

The official celebration of the Forward anniversary will take place on May 14. with the issuance of a large special edition of the newspaper and with a concert at the Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The editorial in the World Journal Tribune says that during the 70years of its existence, the Forward “was a social force” that battled the economic handicaps which the Jewish immigrants encountered, and was also a “cultural encouragement to the efflorescence of Yiddish art and letters that is still affecting American literature so powerfully.”