The Tageblatt’s Shining Year

Yidishes tageblatt

1906

Page of printed Yiddish text from newspaper. — This notice was printed in the January 1, 1906, issue of the *Yidishes tageblatt*.

1905 Makes a New Record in the Greatness and Success of the Tageblatt

The Tageblatt printed 174,853 “wanteds” and other smaller advertisements in the course of the twelve months in the year 1905.

6,401 more advertisements than in the year 1904.

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Unknown, “Tageblatt’s glentsender yor” [The Tageblatt’s Shining Year], Yidishes tageblatt 21, no. 1 (Jan. 1, 1906): p. 3.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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The first Yiddish daily in New York City, Yidishes tageblatt (the Jewish Daily News) was established in 1885 by Kasriel Hirsch Sarasohn (1835–1905), an immigrant from Suwałki (today in Poland), who had founded America’s first Yiddish weekly, Di yidishe gazeten (1873). Catering to a traditionally Orthodox, conservative, and increasingly pro-Zionist audience, the long-running Yidishes tageblatt was a “kosher” daily (not printed on Saturday or Jewish holidays) that covered politics, society, history, education, Jewish news from around the world, and popular literature (i.e., poetry and serialized stories), all in a fairly conservative and pietistic vein. In 1928, the Tageblatt was absorbed by the similarly inclined Morgn zhurnal (Morning Journal).