Congress Weekly

{{Short description|Former American periodical}}

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The Congress Weekly magazine was a periodical,{{Cite book|last=Congress|first=United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wrc0jwFv_2cC&pg=PA547|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|date=1957|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=547|language=en}}{{Cite journal|date=1970|title=Jewish Periodicals|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23604074|journal=The American Jewish Year Book|volume=71|pages=594–601|jstor=23604074|issn=0065-8987}} published in New York, by the American Jewish Congress.

The magazine was "a review of Jewish interests.".{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9kEbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Congress+-Weekly%22|title=Serials & Newspapers in Microform|date=1992|publisher=University Microfilms|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=American Jewish Congress|date=1941|title=Congress weekly; a review of Jewish interests.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1353692|journal=Congress Weekly; A Review of Jewish Interests.|language=English|oclc=1353692}} It was founded in the 1930s.

Samuel Caplan was its editor from 1940 till 1966.

Among its contributors was author and poet Judd L. Teller.{{Cite book|last1=Chametzky|first1=Jules|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C&pg=PA530|title=Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology|last2=Felstiner|first2=John|last3=Flanzbaum|first3=Hilene|last4=Hellerstein|first4=Kathryn|date=2001|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-04809-4|page=530|language=en}}

The Congress weekly magazine became a bi-weekly in 1959,{{Cite web|date=1969-05-09|title=Funeral Services Held for Samuel Caplan, 74, Retired Editor of 'congress Bi-weekly'|url=https://www.jta.org/1969/05/09/archive/funeral-services-held-for-samuel-caplan-74-retired-editor-of-congress-bi-weekly|access-date=2021-01-03|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|language=en-US}} known as Congress bi-weekly magazine.{{Cite journal|last=American Jewish Congress|date=1959|title=Congress bi-weekly.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3477442|journal=Congress Bi-weekly.|language=English|oclc=3477442}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AdAMAQAAMAAJ|title=Congress Bi-weekly|date=1962|publisher=American Jewish Congress.|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=btAMAQAAMAAJ|title=Congress Bi-weekly|date=1963|publisher=American Jewish Congress.|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1tAMAQAAMAAJ|title=Congress Bi-weekly|date=1964|publisher=American Jewish Congress.|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-YMAQAAMAAJ|title=Congress Bi-weekly|date=1965|publisher=American Jewish Congress.|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7VVAAAAYAAJ|title=Congress Bi-weekly|date=1973|publisher=American Jewish Congress.|language=en}}

It later (at least since 1975) became a monthly magazine, Congress Monthly,{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Naomi Wiener|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fHLmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA285|title=Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality|date=1992|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-506537-4|page=285|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x3gkAQAAIAAJ&q=Congress+Monthly|title=The Oxbridge Directory of Ethnic Periodicals|date=1979|publisher=Oxbridge Communications.|isbn=978-0-917460-06-7|page=136|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Dorr|first=Steven R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=njgWAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Publications+of+the+American+Jewish+Committee+include+the+monthly+magazines%22|title=Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.C., for Middle Eastern Studies: Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, The Arabian Peninsula, Israel, Turkey, Iran|date=1981|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|isbn=978-0-87474-372-2|page=404|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Singer|first1=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98Y-vc2xsCwC&pg=PA699|title=American Jewish Year Book 2003|last2=Grossman|first2=Lawrence|date=2003|publisher=VNR AG|isbn=978-0-87495-126-4|page=699|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Collection: Records of The American Jewish Congress {{!}} The Center for Jewish History ArchivesSpace|url=https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/20008|access-date=2021-01-03|website=archives.cjh.org}}

{{Cite web|title=American Jewish Congress (AJCongress) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/american-jewish-congress-ajcongress|access-date=2021-01-03|website=www.encyclopedia.com}} with articles on public policy and public affairs.[https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/chan/Chanes.pdf Jerome A Chanes, "A Primer on the American Jewish Community"], 3rd ed. June, 2008, ajc.org