Day-Morning Journal ("Der Tog")

Title: Day-Morning Journal ("Der Tog")

Inclusive Dates: 1922-1972

ID: RG 639

Extent Information

36'7"; 84 5"lgl; 1 3"lgl; 1 3"ovr; 5 wrapped packages

Creators

Day-Morning Journal

Administrative/Biographical History

The *Day-Morning Journal* (*Tog-morgn zhurnal*) was a Yiddish daily in New York formed through the merger of *The Day* (*Der tog*) and the *Jewish Morning Journal*. In 1970 circulation was estimated at 50,000. The newspaper ceased publication in 1971. *The Day*, a Yiddish daily was founded in 1914 by a group of New York intellectuals and businessmen led by Judah Magnes and Morris Weinberg. *The Day* was established as a non-partisan liberal newspaper with high intellectual standards. Under the editorship of William Edlin, its staff included Shmuel Niger, David Pinsky, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, Peretz Hirschbein. The Day reached its peak circulation of 81,000 in 1916. In 1919 it absorbed *Di varhayt*. Its readership declined after World War I. The *Jewish Morning Journal*, a New York Yiddish daily, was founded in 1901 by the Orthodox publisher Jacob Saperstein. Its first editor was Peter Wernik. In 1916 it reached its peak circulation of 111,000 and in the same year Jacob Fishman was appointed editor, directing the paper from 1916 to 1938. Prominent journalists included Jacob Glatstein, Bernard Gorin, Alexander Mukdoni, Jacob Magidov, and Gedaliah Bublick. In 1928 the *Morning Journal* absorbed the *Yiddishes Tageblatt*. As was the case with most Yiddish newspapers, its readership declined steadily after World War I.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Immigration and Emigration
Literature
Politics and Political Parties
Press, Jewish
Unions
United States

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Records

Finding Aid Information

Inventory: Yiddish, 88 pp., ms.; Card catalog: to photographs, English, ms

Administrative Information

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Other Formats: MKM 2; MK 283 (29)

Description: The collection consists of records of *The Day* and of the *Day-Morning Journal*. Records of *The Day*, 1914-1945. Consists of administrative files, correspondence and manuscripts of editors. The administrative materials include inter-office memoranda, minutes, payroll lists, materials relating to the strike at *The Day* in 1941. The correspondence includes files of the Managing Editor, Solomon Dingol, and of the editors Samuel Margoshes, 1926-1934, Ben Zion Goldberg, 1935-1937 and Abraham Bookstein. Materials on immigration and the immigration quota of 1924, including correspondence with congressman Samuel Dickstein concerning problems faced by Jewish immigrants, 1924-1927. Correspondence with readers. Manuscripts by various authors submitted to *The Day*, many of them unpublished. Writers include Daniel Charney, Ossip Dymow, Peretz Hirshbein, Jacob Milch, Isaac Nachman Steinberg, Chaim Zhitlowsky. Records of the *Day-Morning Journal* include administrative records, 1950-1971, inter-office correspondence and memoranda, minutes of Staff Committee. Correspondence with publishers Morris Weinberg and Arthur Jacobs, and editors Aaron Alperin, David Meckler, Samuel Margoshes, Aaron Glanz-Leieles. Materials and correspondence relating to specific columns such as *Krumer shpigl*, *Tribune*, *Froyen un mener*. Manuscripts by various authors. Photographs of Jewish personalities.