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Around the World with Jewish Newspapers

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JL;DR SUMMARY Jewish newspapers from around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries served as crucial mediums for cultural, political, and social dialogue within the Jewish communities. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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United States  Ladino  Jewish History  Yiddish  Argentina  Jewish Newspapers  Hamagid  Levada  Diario Israelita  Die Presse 

Places mentioned

Argentina
"In his extensive research of the Argentinian Yiddish press, he's found two daily newspapers that rose to particular prominence, in part due to their salaciousness."
New York, United States
"One of the most popular Ladino newspapers in the United States, Levada, published its first issue in 1922. Levada is published in New York on the, first on Forsyth Street and later on Rivington Street, which was, you know, this is like the Lower East Side, the center of, like, Jewish-American memory."
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"This was the first one that lasted. And really, from the outset, it was a politically centrist and Zionist-oriented newspaper, although some of its writers had started out very much on the left."
New York, United States
"But despite its editorial success, advertising sales alone weren't enough to financially support the newspaper. What seems to be the case is that what really enabled the newspaper to become so popular and what really helped the newspaper to continue so long was its side gigs."
Salonika, Central Macedonia, Greece
"Their main source of revenue seems to have been actually the printing of coat check tickets. Because, why? One of the niches that Sephardic Jews wound up being overrepresented in in the early 20th century were guys who were working in the coat checks. Levada was a newspaper by and for working-class Sephardim, right down to its business operations."
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"I saw it when I was working as a librarian in Montreal in the 1980s. The last Yiddish paper there, the Canada Adler, closed, I think, in 1987."
Quebec, Canada
"I saw it when I was working as a librarian in Montreal in the 1980s. The last Yiddish paper there, the Canada Adler, closed, I think, in 1987."

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