Der Morgen Zshurnal = Jewish Journal and Daily News (New York, N.Y.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
4,361 issues from 1938 to 1953, published in New York, New York, digitised for Chronicling America.
The trajectory of the Yiddish press in the United States has largely mirrored that of its Yiddish speaking readers during the period spanning from the last quarter of the nineteenth century through the first quarter of the twentieth century. This era was marked by significant Ashkenazi Jewish immigration from eastern Europe to America, especially in the wake of the pogroms targeting Jews in the Russian Empire, beginning in 1881 following the assassination of Czar Alexander II (1855-1881) and continuing into the early 1920s.
Yiddish newspaper headlines from 1906-1920 attest to the growing wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that paved the way for mass immigration to the United States. Examples of such headlines include: “Terror of Pogroms in Many Cities” (Der Morgen Zshurnal, June 15, 1906); “Pogroms in Odessa” (Der Morgen Zshurnal, April 11, 1909); “The Russian Pogroms against the Jews in Galicia” (Der Tog, November 5, 1914); “New Pogroms in Ukraine: Masses of Jews Slaughtered” (Yidishes Tageblatt, September 9, 1920).
Di Varhayt featured some of the most detailed articles about the pogroms; they provided specific statistics of those murdered, wounded, orphaned, and the cost of damages incurred by Jews as the direct result of these violent episodes. Although certainly not the only pogrom victims of that era, the Jews of Odessa were said to have witnessed the worst of these anti-Jewish onslaughts in the earliest years of the twentieth century, as reported in Di Varhayt, November…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- New York, New York, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress