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Historic Jewish Press
This site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various
countries, languages, and time periods. It displays digital versions of each
newspaper, making it possible to view the papers in their original layout.
Full-text search is available for all content.
Using the ActivePaper software of the Olive-Software company, the website
hopes to make avilable online the majority of Jewish newspapers and journals
published in the past, including extremely rare newspapers to which access
has been previously impossible.
Newspapers currently available and searchable are:
Hebrew: Ha-Levanon (1863-1886), Ha-Magid (1856-1903)
English: Palestine Post (1932-1950)
French: Israel (Cairo, 1920-1939), L'Avenir Illustre (Casablanca 1926-1940),
Paix et Droit (Paris, 1921-1940), Bulletin de l'Alliance (Paris, 1860-1913)
The 1925-1955 issues of the Hebrew newspaper Davar will soon be added to the
site. Funding has also been recently received which will enable the
digitization of an additional 250,000-300,000 pages of Hebrew newspapers.
This website's initiators, Tel Aviv University and the National Library of
Israel (Jewish National and University Library), together with the Library
of the Alliance israelite universelle, encourage additional partners and
contributors - be they academic, public, or private groups or individuals -
to join in this project, with the goal of expanding the collection and
establishing within it distinctive departments organized by language and
locality.
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