Yidishes tageblatt

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).