The Jewish Daily Forward

The Jewish Daily Forward, Yiddish: פֿאָרווערטס, Forverts ( unofficially: The Yiddish Forward), just simply The Forward, is a Jewish- American newspaper. Originally a Yiddish daily newspaper, it appears today in an English weekly and fortnightly Yiddish in one version; added the daily update of the respective website. The headquarters of the newspaper is in New York City.

History

Abraham Cahan founded on 22 April 1897, the then socialist-oriented daily newspaper, of which he held until 1950. The name Forverts - actually a German word; Yiddish it would foroys hot - was taken from the same central organ of the German Social Democrats (see Forward ( Germany ) ). The journal quickly became the leading newspaper in Yiddish in the United States and was responsible for the Jewish immigrants from Europe, their integration into American society, it significantly contributed, of high importance.

During the First World War, the daily circulation was 200,000 copies in eleven local and regional issues. Beginning of the 1930s, over 275,000 copies were printed daily. In addition, the newspaper owned a radio station in Yiddish, the WEVD - known as For some time, the number of readers of Forverts was higher than that of the New York Times, " the station that speaks your language. ". For the newspaper many well-known authors, such as Morris Rosenfeld or the Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elie Wiesel wrote.

After the end of World War II the number of readers fell sharply, which is why the newspaper was from 1983, only a week, initially supplemented by an English Supplement, published. The English edition of 1990 was autonomous, the Yiddish and English versions have since been depending on independent editors, however, have a common editorship in the Forward Association as before. From 1995, also appeared a Russian edition, which was sold in 2004, however, and appears under the name Forum since 2007. Today's political orientation of the English edition is left liberal, that of the Yiddish edition varies depending on the item writers on social democratic liberal to national or religious- conservative.

The English edition was in early 2013 ( must be added about 400,000 monthly unique visitors to the site) with a circulation of 28,000 copies and continues to play week after week on printed paper. The Yiddish print version, however, which had a circulation of 2,100 copies in early 2013 and about 6,000 people in printed form and again 6,000 people will read in digital form, was the beginning of February 2013 changed because of increasing financial pressure in a bi-weekly newspaper; as a compensation for this, the online version is updated daily.

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