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F
or nearly two centu-
ries, Jewish daily and
weekly newspapers
have been a useful window
into the life and soul of the
local, regional and global
Jewish commu-
nity. Perusing
the pages of a
Jewish news-
paper, as many
of us do each
week, one finds
a diverse array
of genres: news
stories, scholarly essays by
rabbis and lay intellectuals,
op-eds, letters, poetry, serial-
ized short stories and novel-
las and, of course, advertise-
ments and announcements.
For historians of the
Jewish community, especially
for those of us interested in
Alltagsgeschichte [history of
daily life], Jewish newspa-
pers are an indispensable
source of firsthand accounts
and firsthand perspectives.
As such, Jewish newspapers
have been, to paraphrase
erstwhile publisher of
the Washington Post Phil
Graham: Jewish newspapers
are the first rough draft of
modern Jewish history.
Jewish newspapers, like
other dailies and weeklies,
have played a pivotal role
in the democratization of
knowledge. Prior to the rise
of the internet and social
media, the daily or weekly
newspaper was the most
effective way for writers
to disseminate their ideas
to the broadest audience
in the shortest time.
Contributors to Jewish
newspapers at once ben-
efited from and encour-
aged Jewish literacy.
The more educated the
readership, the more
deeply and widely these
written words would
resonate. More impor-
tantly, the sheer vari-
ety and diversity of ideas
and themes that emanated
from the pages of the Jewish
press — worlds beyond the
erstwhile narrow range of
rabbinic homilies and expli-
cations antiquated texts that
often resonated very little
with the pressing issues
of the present — encour-
aged more Jews to attain a
level of literacy and educa-
tion necessary to appreciate
these ideas.
The range of language
and outlooks of the Jewish
press, especially in the
20th century, has been as
varied and diverse as the
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