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Seize Der Tog!: The Yiddish Press in America

By Cassia Kisshauer, Senior Reference Services Librarian

Seize Der Tog!: The Yiddish Press in America

The Yiddish press in America got its start in the late 19th century. By the 1910s, publications were flourishing and represented a wide variety of Jewish religious and political perspectives. Newspapers served as critical sites of information, entertainment, and learning. They provided access to local and national news in…

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Not Just a Bundle of Letters

Not Just a Bundle of Letters

Dear Mr. Editor,

I have been in the country only two months, and I find myself in such terrible circumstances that I need your advice.

So begin many of the letters submitted to the Bintel Brief. In 1897, Abraham Cahan founded the Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish newspaper based on the Lower East Side of New York…

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