Jewish Morning Journal

A politically conservative, Orthodox Jewish publisher, Jacob Saphirstein, founded the Jewish Morning Journal in 1901. It was published in Yiddish, the language of the majority of eastern European Jewish immigrants who settled on the Lower East Side of New York.The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. Isaac Landman, editor. vol 10, p 55, 1948 The paper took on a more liberal slant in 1916, when Jacob Fishman became editor, replacing Peter (Peretz) Wiernik. After resigning as editor in 1938, Fishman continued his daily column, "From Day to Day."Fishman Resigns As Editor of Morning Journal. Jewish Telegraphic Agency 22 Nov 1938

Zionist in outlook, the Jewish Morning Journal advocated an Orthodox lifestyle, and was not published on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. It was a staunch advocate of the Americanization of the Eastern European immigrants who formed the bulk of its readership. Along with other Yiddish publications, its circulation declined steadily after World War I, as immigrants became more assimilated and used English.Fruma Mohrer, Marek Web. Guide to the Yivo Archives. M E Sharpe Inc (October 1997) p62

In 1928 the Jewish Morning Journal merged with the Yidishes Tagblat (Yiddish יידישעס טאגעבלאט). Morris Cohen, a Canadian philanthropist, bought the Jewish Morning Journal in 1949."Jewish Morning Journal Changes Ownership," The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, April 13, 1949 p 46 In 1953 the combined entity merged with the liberal Yiddish daily Jewish Day (Der Tog). In 1970 the circulation of The Day-Morning Journal was 50,000. The paper ceased publication in 1971.

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• Gershom Bader
• Bernard Gorin
• Alexander Mukdoni
• Jacob Glatstein
• Gedaliah Bublick
• Frank Taffel, Atlanta correspondent
• Philip Krantz
• Jacob Magidoff
• Ḥayyim Malitz
• Joseph Margoshes
• M. Seifert
• M. Sharkansky
• S.L. Shneiderman
• Abner Tannenbaum
• I. Friedman
• Peter Wiernik
• Michael Brown (New York, journalist 1927-1937 and city editor from 1937 to 1947)
• M.J. Nurenberger (correspondent who became editor in 1947)
• S. B. Komaiko

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• [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/tjm Jewish Morning Journal] at Historical Jewish Press

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