This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 21, 1912. When the sailors had finished letting down the last lifeboat, a Frenchman ran to the edge of the deck with two children in his arms. In his desperation, he pleaded with the sailors and passengers in the lifeboat to take his children. The…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 20, 1912. Yesterday, the U.S. Senate committee that was directed to investigate circumstances and facts regarding the major accident that occurred to passengers of the Titanic heard several witnesses. The first witness to be called was Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line,…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 20, 1912. A committee from the National Council of Jewish Women composed of Mrs. American and Mrs. Perlman welcomed the rescued Jewish passengers from the Carpathia. The committee had four automobiles, and they drove the survivors from the dock to the Hospitality Society and the…
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 19, 1912. “I was standing at the wheel of the Titanic when the accident happened,” said Robert Hitchens, one of the ship’s officers who was rescued. “At 20 minutes to 12, I heard three bell signals and precisely afterward received a call from the watchman…
The Titanic’s sinking in 1912 coincided with one of the most vibrant moments in American Jewish history, when Jews in New York, Chicago and beyond were organizing to ease the passage of their contemporaries from Eastern Europe. Jewish organizations like the National Council of Jewish Women and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society were in a…
C’mon Macy’s. Honor your heritage. Demonstrate your respect for those who worked in your store a century ago. Show us the plaque. We refer to the bronze, bas-relief plaque, emblazoned with the profiles of Ida and Isidor Straus, who famously refused offers to escape the sinking Titanic 100 years ago and died together in the…
On Friday, April 19, 1912, 10 Jewish survivors of the ill-fated luxury liner RMS Titanic posed for a Forverts photographer in the offices of the Hospitality Society on East Broadway. The sad group included only a few of the 705 survivors who had been rescued by the steamship RMS Carpathia and who had arrived in…
This editorial was published in the Yiddish Forward in 1912. First impressions of the horrendous accident cause a heightened awareness of one’s humanity. The victims died suffering hideous death throes. People weep and keen and rend their clothes ritually over the loss of their loved ones. At a time such as this, who could ponder…
דער רוימישער אימפּעראַטאָר פֿרעדעריק דער צווייטער האָט געזוכט אַן ענטפֿער צו דער פֿראַגע אויף אַ וויסנשאַפֿטלעכן אופֿן.
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