New Palestine (magazine)

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New Palestine was a magazine founded in December 1919,

{{Cite web|title=Israel at 64|url=https://www.jpost.com/features/in-thespotlight/israel-at-64|access-date=2021-01-23|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|date=25 April 2012 |language=en-US}} initially as a weekly and later as a bi-weekly, published in New York.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kgniDnXH7aYC&q=%22the+new+palestine%22|title=New Serial Titles|date=1995|publisher=Library of Congress|language=en}} It was the official organ of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSrnjpL3IXgC&pg=RA2-PA1|title=The New Palestine|date=1921|publisher=Zionist Organization of America|page=2|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=ZOA|date=1921|title=The New Palestine|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9590841|journal=The New Palestine|language=English|oclc=9590841}}

It started as a four-page publication.{{Cite web|title=The new Palestine|url=https://www.jpost.com/in-jerusalem/the-new-palestine-547918|access-date=2021-01-23|website=The Jerusalem Post|date=4 April 2018 |language=en-US}} The first issue in January 1920 read: "For the Restoration and up-building of a Jewish Palestine." Its managing editor was Isidore Cooperman.{{Cite web|title=Page 70 - Jewish Book Annual Volume 3|url=http://jba.cjh.org/volumes/3/HTML/files/assets/basic-html/page70.html|access-date=2021-01-21|website=jba.cjh.org}}

It evolved from The Maccabean Magazine by Louis Lipsky{{Cite book|last=Eisenberg|first=Ronald L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yqXXD_74yAEC&pg=PA235|title=The Streets of Jerusalem: Who, What, why|date=2006|publisher=Devora Publishing|isbn=978-1-932687-54-5|page=235|language=en}} and Meyer Wolf Weisgal.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V789AAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+new+palestine%22|title=The Odyssey of an Optimist, Meyer W. Weisgal: An Anthology|date=1967|publisher=Athenuem|pages=10, 64|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Meyer Wolf Weisgal (1894-1977)|url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12757050/meyer_wolf_weisgal/|access-date=2021-01-22|website=data.bnf.fr}}

Contributors included Menachem Ribalow (1895–1953), who published numerous articles in New Palestine,{{Cite web|date=1953-09-18|title=Menachem Ribalow, Noted Hebrew Author and Editor, Dies in N.Y.|url=https://www.jta.org/1953/09/18/archive/menachem-ribalow-noted-hebrew-author-and-editor-dies-in-n-y|access-date=2021-01-03|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|language=en-US}} and the philanthropist and businessman Jacob Henry Schiff (born Jakob Heinrich Schiff; January 10, 1847 – September 25, 1920).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=59NBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA68|title=The Maccabæan-Magazine of Jewish Life and Letters|date=1920|publisher=Federation of American Zionists|language=en}}

The March 27, 1925 issue was dedicated in its entirety to the opening of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.{{Cite web|date=1925-03-27|title=The New Palestine, March 27, 1925|url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/newpalestine/1925/03/27/01/?&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1|access-date=2025-02-27|website=The New Palestine|language=en-US}}

In 1934, Samuel Caplan was editor.{{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}}

Ludwig Lewisohn (May 30, 1882 – December 31, 1955) novelist, literary critic, the drama critic for The Nation and then its associate editor, was its editor{{Cite journal|last=Kessner|first=Carole S.|date=2001-12-01|title=The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/31462|journal=Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies|language=en|volume=20|issue=2|pages=179–182|doi=10.1353/sho.2001.0148|s2cid=170215473 |issn=1534-5165}} and editorial-writer between 1943 and 1948.{{Cite web|title=Ludwig Lewisohn Collection|url=http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0166/ms0166.html|access-date=2021-01-21|website=collections.americanjewisharchives.org}}