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Gershon Jacobson

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232: 87:. In 1972 he founded The Algemeiner Journal, the largest Yiddish weekly newspaper, which he published and edited till his death on May 29, 2005. The paper, printed in Yiddish with a four-page English supplement, has a circulation of 18,000. 62:
In 1953, Mr. Jacobson moved to the United States where he became the city editor for Der Tog Morgen Journal (The Daily Jewish Journal), one of the largest daily Yiddish newspapers (formed at that time through the union of the two dailies
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from the late 1950s until it ceased publication in 1966. After the Tribune ceased publication, Jacobson moved to the
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Mr. Jacobson received an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and a graduate degree from the
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writing for French newspapers following the war in the early 1950s. In 1952, he and his family moved to
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on May 30, 1933, Jacobson began his journalistic career in
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Der Algemeiner Journal
Yiddish
weekly newspapers
North America
Brooklyn
Moscow
Paris
Toronto
Der Tog
Der Morgen Zshurnal
Elie Wiesel
Israel
Yediot Acharonot
Columbia University
Herald-Tribune
New York Post
Newsweek
Simon
Yosef Yitzchok
Brooklyn
Norwalk
CT
Manhattan
NYC
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