Crónicas de la comunidad: los periódicos judíos en Sudamérica

Irene Münster

doi:10.5354/0718-8749.2023.71670

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The purpose of this article is to serve as an introductory tool for scholars interested in pursuing further the history of Jewish newspapers published in South America since 1880, the year when Vider Kol, the pioneer of Jewish journalism, appeared in Argentina. This article provides basic data on regional publications. The existence of these early periodicals — an essential part of South American Jewish history— has been partially documented in just a few countries; Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, among them. However, due to lack of resources to safeguard them and, in some cases, their ephemeral life, several have literally disappeared, and we only know about their existence because it was captured by those who documented the historical events. The emergence of a Jewish press was due to community needs for information about events, and developments in their respective political groups and their places of origin. Jewish periodicals were published in Spanish, Portuguese, and Yiddish. Others also appeared in the primary languages Jews spoke in their country of origin: German, Russian, Hungarian, etc. In the first half of the 20th century, newspapers and periodicals flourished in several South American countries. As the immigrants’ descendants were born and raised in the new lands, Yiddish was mostly replaced by publications in Spanish or Portuguese.

Chronicles of the community: Jewish Newspapers in South America

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