Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

3/1/1987 - 6/30/1989

Funding Totals

$300,185.00 (approved)
$300,185.00 (awarded)


The Jewish Forward: The History of a Paper and Its People

FAIN: GN-23106-87

Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA 01002-3375)
Marlene J. Booth (Project Director: September 1986 to August 1990)

To support the production of a 60-minute documentary film about the JEWISH FOR-WARD, a Yiddish-language newspaper that was for many years the most influentialand widely read of any Yiddish paper in the United States.