A Living LENS BY ALANA newhouse

JAMES H. Grossmann Memorial Jewish BOOK MONTH Celebration: A Living LENS BY ALANA Newhouse Feb 6, 2008 Department: Community Events Location and Time: 8 pm Cost: $8 JCC members, $10 general admission For More Information Contact: Stephanie Cangro x435 scangro On April 22, 1897, the very first issue of theYiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward hit the newsstands and gave voice to an entire culture—the vibrant Jewish community that had grown up on New York’s Lower East Side. For over one hundred years, immigrants and native New Yorkers read about the world—and themselves—in its pages. Known by its audience and creators as the Forverts, the articles and photographs showed readers the way life really was, from the push-carts and markets of the urban ghetto, to