Finding Aid for the Friday Forum collection 2019.014.h.r

Tiana Taliep
Oskar Schindler Archives
11/5/2019


Contributing Institution: Oskar Schindler Archives
Title: Friday Forum collection
Creator: Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Identifier/Call Number: 2019.014.h.r
Physical Description: 1.35 Linear Feet
Date (bulk): 1970-1979
Condition Description: Fair
Abstract: The Friday Forum is a monthly magazine of the Jewish Exponent newspaper. The forum features lengthy essays on a variety of topics regardig the Jewish life. These series are firsthand narratives of the remnants of European Jewish life and survivors rebuilding their lives post-Holocaust. The newspaper in this collection date from 1972 to 1978.
Physical Location: Oskar Schindler Archive
Language of Material: English .

Content Description

The Jewish Exponent is a weekly newspaper that serves the Jewish community of Philadelphia. The newspaper has been published continuously since April 15, 1887. It is the second-oldest printed Jewish newspaper in the United States. The publication evolved from its roots as a voice of prominent people in business to a multimedia platform for delivering Jewish news and information of the community dialogue.
The Friday Forum is a monthly magazine of the Jewish Exponent newspaper. The forum features lengthy essays on a variety of topics, including firsthand narratives of the remnants of European Jewish life, and survivors rebuilding their lives post-Holocaust. Phyllis Zimbler Miller was the editor from 1972 to 1978. At that time, she published many survivors' stories in their own words. The bulk of the newspapers are from the 1970s.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the responsibility of the research to obtain all permissions.

Arrangement

The collection has been arranged in chronological order.

Preferred Citation

[Item title/description; Box number/ Folder number] Friday Forum collection (2019.014.h.r), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman University, CA.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Holocaust survivors -- History -- 20th Century
Jewish newspapers--Pennsylvania.

box 1, folder 1

Friday Forum 1972 1972

List of Articles for October 6, 1972

  • In Germany:The End of Assimilation,
  • "Best Seller" in Two New Editions,
  • The Last Jewish Child,
  • The Jews Who Ruled Russia Before the Czars,
  • Waiting for the Messiah.

List of Articles for October 27, 1972

  • Hogan's Heroes and the Holocaust,
  • A Look into Jewish Education,
  • Can American Jews be Zionist?,
  • Forum Issue: A Debate on State Aid to Parochial Schools,
  • My Uncle, the Jewish Farmer,

List of Articles for November 24, 1972

  • Who Speaks for the Jews?,
  • David Nassy: Jewish Physician from Surinam,
  • Reform, Conservative Judaism Merging,
  • Educating the Disadvantaged, Israeli Style,
  • A Debate on State Aid to Parochial Schools,

List of Articles for December 29, 1972

  • On Tuesday I Taught Sunday School,
  • Quotas and Affirmative Action,
  • Viewpoint, Part 1: Penn's Jewish Residence House,
  • Part 2: Penn's Talmadai Aharon,
  • Street Crime and Violance: A Jewish Perspective,
  • Customs of Sephardic Jews,
  • Educating the Disadvantaged, Israeli Style,
box 1, folder 2

Friday Forum 1973 1973

List of Articles for January 26, 1973

  • The Quest for Freedom in Contemporary Hebrew Literature
  • Notes on the Religious Life of Soviet Jews
  • Israel Expectations Revised
  • My God
  • What Makes Israelis Live Here?
  • An Unusual Fellowship Night
  • THe Blossoming of Ideas
  • The Rainbow Promise
  • To Mrs. Shtoltzhalz with Koved

List of Articles for February 23, 1973

  • A Tourist's View of Moroccan Jews
  • The American Aliyah Phenomenon
  • Yitzhak Ben-Zvi:The Man Behind the Effigy
  • The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan
  • The New Jewish Consciousness on Campus

List of Articles for June 1, 1973

  • The Birth of a Jew: The Unstructured Synagogue
  • The Mustic Tradition in Judaism
  • Oriental Jews in the Soviet Union
  • The Unfinished Worship

List of Articles for June 22, 1973

  • The Changing Role of Jewish Women
  • The Traditional Jewish Woman
  • The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halachal And the Jewish Woman
  • The Emergence of Jewish Women Power
  • From Facilitators to Participators
  • Future Sisterhood President Becomes Future Rabbi

List of Articles for October 26, 1973

  • A Long-Lived Temporary Organization
  • Nobody Who Wasn't There Can Ever Understand
  • In Memoriam - Andrei Spitzer
  • Greek Jewish Communities Still Survive
  • Why Keep Kosher

List of Articles for November 23, 1973

  • Every German has Special Responsibilties
  • Missions to the Jews- 19th Century Style
  • Yiddish Language and Literature
  • The Little Shoes
box 1, folder 3

Friday Forum 1974 1974

List of Articles for January 25, 1974

  • The Other Day I Had a Phone Call
  • Historical Perspectives on the Maccabees
  • Pilgrimage to the Past
  • Soviet Scrapbook - They Take Away Your Soul
  • Reflections on Jewish Education in the United States

List of Articles for February 22, 1974

  • What is a Jew?
  • The Meaning of the Balfour Declaration
  • The Jewish Communities in the Caribbean
  • The Universal Mission of the Jewish People
  • An Open Letter to My Daughter

List of Articles for March 22, 1974

  • The Modern Appearl of Magic
  • A Letter to Jewish Women
  • The Burden of Memory and the Quest
  • The Celebration of Judaism
  • The Present State of American Jewish Education
  • The Flashback of a Jewish Life

List of Articles for May 25, 1974

  • Jewish Pluralism in Israel
  • The Forgotten Woman in Jewish History
  • Jews and Quotas: A Call for Unity
  • Bernard Malamud and the American Dream

List of Articles for June 28, 1974

  • Remnants
  • Uri Zvi Greenberg- Poet of Lament and Power

List of Articles for July 26, 1974

  • Jewish Education: "My Parents Insisted..."
  • Tisha B'Av on Mount Zion

List of Articles for September 27, 1974

  • A Simple and Beautiful Truth
  • Has the War Had Any Effect?
  • The Fisherman's Wife
  • Kol Nidre
  • Needed: Teacher with idealism

List of Articles for October 25, 1974

  • The Israeli-Jordan-Palestine Triangle
  • The Story of Ruth

List of Articles for November 22, 1974

  • Jewish Women - Finding Their Place...or Kept in it?
  • Jewish Literature in American Context
  • Observations of a Cafe Loiterer

List of Articles for December 27, 1974

  • Blacks and Jews
  • Gazans and Israelis
  • Jews in the Far East
  • The Topmost Bench
box 1, folder 4

Friday Forum 1975 1975

List of Articles for January 31, 1975

  • Jewish Studies and the University of Pennsylvania
  • German Jews vs. East European Jews
  • I Remember Hosht

List of Articles for February, 1975

  • To Plead the Case of Beate Klarsfled
  • Add the Blood of a Christian Child

List of Articles for April 28, 1975

  • Zichronot - Remembrances of Hell
  • Encounter with a Nightmare
  • Voice in the Wilderness
  • Scense from Israel
  • Germany Stays Always Germany

List of Articles for May 23, 1975

  • A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France
  • Abraham Shlonsky, Singe of Sodom and Soil
  • Nonsexist Jewish Education
  • Atikot
  • The Story of Sam Kauffman
  • The Miracle of Resurrection

List of Articles for June 27, 1975

  • A Few Days in Roscoe
  • Blacks and Jews: Rebuilding a Bridge
  • Wasn't that Instance Unique?
  • Synagogues of Prague and Budapest
  • What's in a Name?

List of Articles for July 25, 1975

  • Point of View:Bar/Bat Mitzvah at 16
  • Passover: 1975

List of Articles for August 29, 1975

  • Life in Russia in the 1910s
box 1, folder 5

Friday Forum 1976 1976

List of Articles for January 30, 1976

  • A Jewish World in One Room
  • Balkan Encounter: Sphardim and Ashkenazim in Yugoslavia
  • The Germans Kept Their Word
  • Olan's Question: To Stay or Not to Stay

List of Articles for March 5, 1976

  • Motel der Shicker
  • Maya's Death
  • Jewish Immigration to Norway
  • A Jewish Weaning Ceremony

List of Articles for April 2, 1976

  • Chronicles of Courage
  • The Night Yiddish Theater Came to NY
  • Hosht on the Brink of Disaster

List of Articles for May 7, 1976

  • Off to Yeshiva in 1859
  • God Still Has a Word to Say
  • Atop a Hill in Hungary
  • Joel Rohr - Art and Israel

List of Articles for May 28, 1976

  • From Israel with Candor
  • Friday Afternoon in a Shtetl
  • Flavius Jisephus

List of Articles for September 3, 1976

  • Hester Street and 'Yekl'
  • World of Our Fathers (and Mothers)
box 1, folder 6

Friday Forum 1977 1977

List of Articles for March 25, 1977

  • A Yeshiva Student's Engagement
  • The Benality of Evil
  • Hagadat Boussidan

List of Articles for April 22, 1977

  • The Return: Riga 1976
  • Civil Disabilities of Jews
  • Images of Warsaw

List of Articles for May 20, 1977

  • Question Children Ask
  • An Austrian Hothic Tale
  • The Saga of a Convet
  • The Return:Frankfurt 1976

List of Articles for July 1, 1977

  • Rebecca Gratz of Philadelphia
  • Gluckel of Hamein
  • Wanted in Portland

List of Articles for July 29, 1977

  • A Separate Palestinian State
  • The Night of the Murdered Poets

List of Articles for August 26, 1977

  • Jewish Kings of the Arabs
  • A Tale of Two Wives and Two Jobs
  • ....and a Steam Bath

List of Articles for September 30, 1977

  • Jewish Voting
  • The Song of Kinneret
  • The Czar's Uncle
  • Sluggers in Chassid's Garb

List of Articles for October 28, 1977

  • Zeese Shaindele
  • A Survival Manual
  • Single Jews

List of Articles for December 9, 1977

  • The Joke
  • Contemporary Israeli Literature
  • Yiddish Film
  • Confessions of a Secular Jew
box 1, folder 7

Friday Forum 1978 1978

List of Articles for January 6, 1978

  • Bundist Sketches
  • The Tree of Sorrow
  • Hillel Bavli - Poet and Teacher

List of Articles for January 27, 1978

  • Germany and Zionism: 1887-1918
  • The Bouquet

List of Articles for February, 1978

  • The New Shoes
  • Emma Lazarus' Fight for Freedom
  • The Ranger and the Blueberries
  • Another Chance

List of Articles for April 7, 1978

  • The World Would Be Enterpreneur
  • The Images of Jews in American Film
  • The Color of Marc Chagall

List of Articles for April 28, 1978

  • The Last Jews of Radauti
  • The Red Trees
  • Life Cycle

List of Articles for June 2, 1978

  • The Rich Man's Bride
  • Echoes in the Night
  • Vanished World