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Jewish Ledger

{{Short description|Jewish newspaper based in Connecticut}}

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| name = Jewish Ledger

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| type = Weekly newspaper

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| owner = Henry Zachs

| founder = Samuel Neusner and
Rabbi Abraham J. Feldman

| publisher = 20/20 Media{{cite news |title=INTRODUCING… THE NEW! SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND JEWISH LEDGER |url=http://www.jewishledger.com/2022/01/introducing-the-new-southern-new-england-jewish-ledger/ |access-date=17 July 2022 |work=Jewish Ledger |date=13 January 2022 |quote=Connecticut and Massachusetts Jewish Ledgers ... joined forces to create the Southern New England Jewish Ledger...by 20/20 Media, ... in West Hartford, Connecticut...the Ledger will switch from a weekly to a bi-weekly schedule}}

| editor = Judie Jacobson

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| foundation = {{Start date|1929|04}}

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| headquarters = West Hartford, Connecticut

| circulation = 15,000{{cite web|url=http://media.nanawall.com/files/Articles/The%20Exhilaration%20of%20Openness.pdf|title=The Exhilaration of Openness|location=Rochester, New York|date=1 November 2012|access-date=28 March 2016|archive-date=5 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405072308/http://media.nanawall.com/files/Articles/The%20Exhilaration%20of%20Openness.pdf|url-status=dead}}

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The Jewish Ledger is Connecticut's only weekly Jewish newspaper.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/americanjewishye00amer |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/americanjewishye00amer/page/208 208] |quote=jewish ledger connecticut. |title=American Jewish year book, Book 1997|isbn=0-87495-111-9 |publisher=American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America |date=1997 |author1=David Singer |author2=Ruth R. Seldin |access-date=February 28, 2011}}{{cite news|url=http://www.norwichbulletin.com/communities/x1767498582/2-from-area-on-Jewish-Ledgers-movers-and-shakers-list#axzz1FE00hw7e |title=2 from area on Jewish Ledger's 'movers and shakers' list |work=Norwich Bulletin |date=December 31, 2009 |access-date=February 28, 2011}} The Hartford newspaper also has a monthly edition serving the Greater Hartford and western Massachusetts area.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DK5K72JymAEC&q=%22jewish+ledger%22+connecticut&pg=PA63 |title=The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Schreiber Pub.|isbn=1-887563-77-6 |date=2003 |author1=Mordecai Schreiber |author2=Alvin I. Schiff |author3=Leon Klenicki |access-date=February 28, 2011}}

History

It was founded in April 1929 by Samuel Neusner (who had come to the United States from Poland at the age of 10, in 1906) and Rabbi Abraham J. Feldman.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Llk8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22jewish+ledger%22+connecticut |title=Hartford Jews, 1659–1970 |publisher=Connecticut Historical Society |date=1970 |author=Morris Silverman|access-date=February 28, 2011}} Berthold Gaster, whose father had survived the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, became the newspaper's managing editor in 1958.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C__VvaxE5ugC&q=%22jewish+ledger%22&pg=PA105 |title=Jewish West Hartford: from city to suburb |isbn=978-1-59629-204-8|publisher= The History Press|date=2007 |author= Betty N. Hoffman|access-date=February 28, 2011}} Lee Neusner was publisher from 1960 to 1966, when she sold it to Gaster and Shirley Bunis.{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/931492222.html?dids=931492222:931492222&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+10%2C+1967&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=Two+Officials+Purchase+Weekly+Jewish+Ledger&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629034904/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/931492222.html?dids=931492222:931492222&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+10,+1967&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=Two+Officials+Purchase+Weekly+Jewish+Ledger&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |title=Two Officials Purchase Weekly Jewish Ledger |publisher=Hartford Courant |date=January 10, 1967 |access-date=February 28, 2011}} In 1992, the paper was sold to NRG Connecticut Limited Partnership.

As of 2015, the editor was Judie Jacobson.{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishledger.com/2014/03/changing-of-the-guard-the-jewish-ledger-continues-under-new-ownership/ |title=Changing of the guard – The Jewish Ledger continues under new ownership |publisher=Jewish Ledger |date=March 26, 2014 |access-date=November 4, 2015}} Jonathan S. Tobin, currently of The Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia, is a former editor of the Jewish Ledger.

References

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External links

  • [http://www.jewishledger.com/ Jewish Ledger website]
  • [http://ajpa.org/directoryprofile.php?id=187 American Jewish Press Association Member Profile]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • [http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/Connecticut.htm The Connecticut Jewish Ledger Obituary Database]
  • [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25188833987 Jewish Ledger Facebook page]

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Category:Jewish newspapers published in the United States

Category:Jews and Judaism in Connecticut

Category:Newspapers published in Connecticut

Category:Weekly newspapers published in the United States

Category:Newspapers established in 1929

Category:West Hartford, Connecticut

Category:Mass media in Hartford County, Connecticut

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