Jewish Sentinel

{{Short description|Weekly newspaper published by the Sentinel Publishing Company}}

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The Jewish Sentinel called simply The Sentinel,{{Cite book|last=Chicago|first=Sentinel Publishing Co|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4E15AAAAMAAJ|title=The Sentinel's History of Chicago Jewry, 1911-1961|last2=Chicago|first2=Sentinel Publishing Co|date=1961|publisher=Sentinel Publishing Company|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Drachler|first=Norman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74WxERjUz0IC&pg=PA446|title=A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States|date=1996|publisher=Wayne State University Press|isbn=978-0-8143-2353-3|page=446|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Sclar|first=Ari F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zl7yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|title=Beyond Stereotypes: American Jews and Sports|date=2015-04-15|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-61249-356-5|page=71|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Cutler|first=Irving|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5wUtF-RoAAkC&pg=PT158|title=Chicago's Jewish West Side|date=2009-10-26|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-2100-4|language=en}} Nazis were burning books written by Jews, democrats, and liberal and social revolutionaries. The cover of the Sentinel, a weekly started in 1911, commemorates. was a weekly newspaper published each Thursday by The Sentinel Publishing Company of Chicago from 1911 to 1996.

Founded by Louis Berlin (d. 1964) with a friend, Abraham L. Weber.{{Cite book|last=Cutler|first=Irving|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=85k85NhemBgC&pg=RA2-PA151-IA10|title=The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb|date=1996|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-02185-5|page=151|language=en}} Berlin was the first editor.{{Cite web|date=1964-12-02|title=Louis Berlin, Founder and First Editor of 'sentinel,' Dies in Chicago|url=https://www.jta.org/1964/12/02/archive/louis-berlin-founder-and-first-editor-of-sentinel-dies-in-chicago|access-date=2021-01-24|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|language=en-US}} Its first issues was on February 4, 1911. In 1943 he sold it to Jack I. Fishbein (d.1996) who was editor and publisher{{Cite news|date=1961-08-09|title=Jewish Lifs Termed At An End In Soviet (Published 1961)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/08/09/archives/jewish-life-termed-at-an-end-in-soviet.html|access-date=2021-01-24|issn=0362-4331}} since.{{Cite web|last=Writer|first=Kenan Heise, Tribune Staff|title=Publisher Jack Fishbein, Leader In Jewish Issues|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-07-19-9607190017-story.html|date=1996-07-19|access-date=2021-01-24|website=chicagotribune.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=1964-03-24|title=J.I. Fishbein, Editor of 'sentinel,' Honored for 20 Years of Service|url=https://www.jta.org/1964/03/24/archive/j-i-fishbein-editor-of-sentinel1-honored-for-20-years-of-service|access-date=2021-01-24|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|language=en-US}}

The Sentinel, Voice of Chicago Jewry,{{Cite web|title=⁨⁨The Sentinel⁩⁩ {{!}} Newspapers {{!}} The National Library of Israel|url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.nli.org.il|language=en}} reflected the changing Chicago Jewish community. It set it apart from others by publishing in the English language while catering (also) to the immigrant community. It appealed to the wide spectrum of Chicago Jewry. In addition to local issues, it covered national and international Jewish news.{{Cite web|title=The Jewish Sentinel - Illinois Digital Archives

|url=http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll14 |access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.idaillinois.org}} "As Allied armies liberated Europe in 1945, it published some of the earliest eyewitness accounts of Nazi concentration camps."{{Cite web|last=Writers|first=Terry Wilson and Ron Grossman, Tribune Staff|title=85-Year-Old Jewish Newspaper Barely Outlives Its Editor|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-01-06-9701060053-story.html|date=1997-01-06|access-date=2021-01-24|website=chicagotribune.com|language=en-US}}

It was one of the longest continuously published Jewish weeklies in the United States. The last issue was December 26, 1996.