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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building > Collections & Reading Rooms > Dorot Jewish Division > Newspapers and Periodicals New York Jewish Newspaper IndexWith dozens of Jewish newspapers currently published in communities around the United States and none of them fully indexed, the Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library has begun to create name and subject indexes for the two locally and nationally pre-eminent Jewish newspapers of the moment, The Jewish Week and the Forward. The Jewish Week began life as the Brooklyn Examiner in 1929, became the American Examiner in 1956, and took on its present identity in 1970. It remains an independent weekly, but, with its large circulation boosted by distribution to contributors to the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies campaign of Greater New York, it has something of the flavor of a community gazette. The Forward, launched in 1990 as an English-language alternative newspaper by the Forward Association, publisher of the Yiddish Forverts, established in 1897, has a much smaller circulation and aims for a younger readership. While it has a special interest in emerging trends and progressive causes, it has none of the Socialist fervor of its fabled forbear. At present, indexing of The Jewish Week is complete from December 1993
to August 2001, while work on the Forward is complete from January 2000
to December 2001. Forward name index January 2000-December
2001. Less exhaustive but more wide-ranging access to recent years' American Jewish newspaper contents may be gained through Ethnic NewsWatch, a subscription service that has been digitizing and archiving full-text selected articles on "News, culture and history from 200+ publications of the ethnic, minority and native press" since the early 1990s. This database is accessible on-site at each of The New York Public Library's four research centers and in all 85 units of its Branch Libraries. Jewish publications excerpted include the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's Daily
News Bulletin and a host of regional titles, such as the Baltimore
Jewish Times, Chicago Jewish Star, Cleveland Jewish News, Jewish
Bulletin of Northern California, Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, Jewish
Exponent, and New Jersey Jewish News, as well as a smattering
of magazines and academic journals.. The database, which provides complete
indexing and allows for keyword searching, is available free of charge
on-site in each of the divisions of the New York Public Library's Research
Libraries and in all 85 units of its Branch Libraries. |