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The Jewish Herald, which described itself as being devoted to the interests of Judaism in the Australian colonies, was first established in Melbourne in December 1879 as a monthly. [...] From 1873-1919 a Sydney edition was published and throughout this period it began to be influenced increasingly by the eastern European migrants. When the Jewish Herald changed its name to the Australian Jewish Herald (between 1920 and 1933) it appeared fortnightly. In 1933 it amalgamated with a Yiddish newspaper, the Australier Leben, which had been established in 1931 by a Russian Jew, and it was edited by Pinchas Goldhar, an important Yiddish writer, until it changed hands in 1933. In that year it merged with the Australian Jewish Herald to reappear as the Jewish Weekly News, which maintained the Yiddish connection by publishing a Yiddish supplement, D i Yiddische Voch (the Jewish week). The merger survived for two years when an Anglo Jewish group bought the rights to the name and resumed publication of the Australian Jewish Herald. The Jewish Weekly News became the Australian Jewish News, which also had a Yiddish supplement, Die Australischer Yiddisher Naies, to cater for the influx of Yiddish speaking migrants." (From: Alan D Crown, "The Jewish Press in Australia" The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association 15 (1990) 87-107) |
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