''The Jewish Morning Journal'' ( yi, דער מארגען זשורנאל , Der Morgen Zhurnal) was a Yiddish-language publication in New York from 1901 to 1971.

Early years

A politically conservative, Orthodox Jewish publisher, Jacob Saphirstein, founded the ''Jewish Morning Journal'' in 1901. It was published in

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, the language of the majority of eastern European Jewish immigrants who settled on the Lower East Side of New York. The paper took on a more liberal slant in 1916, when Jacob Fishman became editor, replacing Peter (Peretz) Wiernik. After resigning as editor in 1938, Fishman continued his daily column, "From Day to Day."

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in outlook, the ''Jewish Morning Journal'' advocated an Orthodox lifestyle, and was not published on Saturday, the

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. It was a staunch advocate of the Americanization of the Eastern European immigrants who formed the bulk of its readership. Along with other Yiddish publications, its circulation declined steadily after World War I, as immigrants became more assimilated and used English.

Later years

In 1928 the ''Jewish Morning Journal'' merged with the ''Yidishes Tagblat'' (

יידישעס טאגעבלאט). Morris Cohen, a Canadian philanthropist, bought the ''Jewish Morning Journal'' in 1949."Jewish Morning Journal Changes Ownership," ''The Canadian Jewish Chronicle,'' April 13, 1949 p 46 In 1953 the combined entity merged with the liberal Yiddish daily ''Jewish Day'' (''Der Tog''). In 1970 the circulation of ''The Day-Morning Journal'' was 50,000. The paper ceased publication in 1971.

Noted journalists

* Gershom Bader * Bernard Gorin *Alexander Mukdoni *

Jacob Glatstein Jacob Glatstein (1896–1971) yiddish יעקב גלאטשטיין was a Poland, Polish-born United States, American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language. His name is also spelled Yankev Glatshteyn or Jacob Glatshteyn. Early ...

Gedaliah Bublick Gedaliah Bublick (1875—1948) was a Yiddish writer and Zionist leader. Biography Gedaliah Bublick was born in Grodno, Russian Empire (today in Belarus), the son of Aaron Bublick. He was raised in Białystok where he remained until 1900. He obt ...

Frank Taffel Frank Taffel (né Shrage Fyvel Tafel, Chervonohrad#Krystynopol Jews, Krystynopol, then Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia, Austria-Hungary, now Chervonohrad, Ukraine, March 10, 1877; died 7 July 1947, Savannah, Georgia, age 70) was a journalist, a f ...

, Atlanta correspondent *

Philip Krantz Jacob Rombro (October 10, 1858 – November 28, 1922), better known by his pen name Philip Krantz, was a Russian-born Jewish-American socialist, newspaper editor, and Yiddish writer. Life Krantz was born on October 10, 1858 in Zhuprany, Vilna Go ...

Jacob Magidoff Jacob Magidoff (June 22, 1869 – August 26, 1943) was a Russian-born Jewish-American Yiddish journalist and newspaper editor. Life Magidoff was born on June 22, 1869, in Odessa, Russia, the son of Aaron Magidoff and Dora Aronovitz. Magidoff a ...

*Ḥayyim Malitz *

Joseph Margoshes Joseph Margoshes (November 16, 1866 – April 10, 1955) was a Galician-born Jewish-American Yiddish journalist. Life Margoshes was born on November 16, 1866 in Lemberg, Galicia, the son of Samuel Margoshes and Sarah Rebekah Flecker. His fathe ...

*M. Sharkansky *M. Seifert * Abner Tannenbaum *I. Friedman *

Peter Wiernik Peter Wiernik (March 6, 1865 – February 12, 1936) was a Russian-born Jewish American Yiddish journalist, newspaper editor, writer and historian. Life Wiernik was born on March 6, 1865 in Vilna, Russia, the son of Hirsch Wolf Wiernik and Sarah ...

*Michael Brown (New York, journalist 1927-1937 and city editor from 1937 to 1947) *

M.J. Nurenberger Meyer Joshua Nurenberger (1911 – August 11, 2001) was a Jewish journalist, author and publisher. He grew up in Europe but immigrated to the New World in 1939, living in the USA where he worked as a war correspondent and journalist, before mo ...

(correspondent who became editor in 1947) * S. B. Komaiko

References

External links

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