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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…

International Jewish Labor Bund

by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History

This post is part of the Jews and Social Justice Series. To read the introduction to the series, click here.

The Jewish Labor Bund was a unique and memorable force in European Jewish communal and political history. Established in Vilna in 1897, the General Jewish Labor Bund was originally conceived as…

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