A few days behind on this one, but never too late to share some of the great content from the Forward. To commemorate and honor the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire the Forward published a special section last week. The section included the first-ever translations of the Jewish Daily Forward‘s original Yiddish coverage of the event, including the front page of March 25, 1911, the day of the fire.
The special section also includes an original essay from David Von Drehle, author of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, as well as the winners of its Triangle Fire Poetry Contest, a prize poetry contest that the Forward held earlier this year to elicit submissions for both an English and Yiddish poem to honor the poetry of Morris Rosenfeld who documented the fire at the time and to reflect upon the fire’s meaning and legacy.The winner of the English poem was Zackary Sholem Berger of Baltimore, MD and the winner of the Yiddish section was Alec (“Leyzer”) Burko of New York City.