Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

10/1/1984 - 9/30/1985

Funding Totals

$35,000.00 (approved)
$35,000.00 (awarded)


The Jewish Forward Film Project: The History of a Paper and Its People (Scripting: TV Documentary)

FAIN: GN-22216-84

Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA 01002-3375)
Marlene J. Booth (Project Director: February 1984 to October 1990)

To support scripting of a 60-minute documentary film about the once-influentialYiddish newspaper, the Jewish FORWARD, its editor, Abraham Cahan, and the role of this newspaper in the acculturation process of Jewish immigrants in America.