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…phia in April of 1843 under the editorship of the able Rab- bi Isaac Leesser of Congrega- tion Mikeh Israel . . . The Oc- cident, like earlier periodicals which appeared both in English and in German, was a monthly publication. The first English-Jewish weekly newspaper to make its appearance in this country was the Asmonean, which was published in New York by Robert Lyon in 1849. From that year, therefore, begins the history of the Jewish week...…

















































