The Jewish Outlook (Denver, Colo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
180 issues from 1904 to 1909, published in Denver, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
“With a diversity of interesting contents quite unusual in a publication of its character, the first number of the Jewish Outlook has reached the public” the Denver Post reported in September 1903. The Jewish Outlook was the first Jewish affiliated newspaper published in Colorado and the unofficial organ of the National Jewish Hospital, a special charity hospital for the victims of tuberculosis who crowded to Denver for the curative powers of the Colorado air described as “an elixir to the breath and velvet to the cheek.”
The publisher of the Jewish Outlook, Samuel Priess, aimed to not “deviate widely from the rules followed by Jewish publications but…to produce an up-to-date journal and to discuss matters of importance to Jews.” The Jewish Outlook was published weekly in a magazine format. While primarily promoting the work of the National Jewish Hospital, the paper claimed to “stand for everything pertaining to Jewish interests, synagogal, and instrumental,” chronicling the “most important foreign and domestic news and particularly concern[ing] itself with the doing[s] of Jews in the Rocky Mountain region.” Despite these claims, the Jewish Outlook stridently opposed both Zionism and Orthodox Judaism.
In the paper’s early years, Rabbi William S. Friedman served as editor of the Jewish Outlook. He was the young and popular rabbi of the Reform Temple Emanuel which had recently constructed a new building in Denver’s affluent Capitol Hill neighborhood. Rabbi Friedman was…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Denver, Colorado, United States
- Language
- English
- 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