Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Newsjunkie.net is a resource guide for journalists. We show who's behind the news, and provide tools to help navigate the modern business of information.
Use of Data
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The Historical Jewish Press (JPRESS) is a collaborative digital archive providing free online access to digitized historical Jewish newspapers and periodicals published across the world from the eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The project is a joint initiative of the National Library of Israel and Tel Aviv University, and represents one of the most significant digital collections for the study of modern Jewish history and the development of the Jewish press.
JPRESS was developed as a partnership between the National Library of Israel and Tel Aviv University's Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center. The project emerged from recognition of the immense historical value of the Jewish periodical press—produced in dozens of languages and from communities across Europe, the Americas, North Africa, and the Middle East—and the fragility of the original newspaper materials. Digitization efforts began in the 2000s and have expanded steadily, with the collection growing to encompass thousands of newspaper titles.
JPRESS offers access to newspapers and periodicals published in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Jewish-Arabic, and numerous European languages including German, Polish, Russian, French, and English. Geographic coverage is global, with materials from communities in Europe (including pre-Holocaust Eastern and Central European communities), Israel/Palestine, the United States, North Africa, and elsewhere. The collection includes both Zionist and non-Zionist publications, religious and secular titles, and newspapers serving a wide range of ideological and communal perspectives.
JPRESS is of exceptional importance to researchers in Jewish journalism history. The collection documents the emergence of the Hebrew-language press in the nineteenth century, the flowering of the Yiddish press in Eastern Europe and America, and the development of journalism in Mandatory Palestine and early Israel. Key titles include historic Hebrew newspapers such as Ha-Maggid (1856) and Ha-Melitz, major Yiddish newspapers, and the Palestinian press of the Mandate era. The collection enables systematic study of news coverage, editorial culture, and the role of the press in shaping modern Jewish identity.
The archive is freely accessible online without registration. Users can search across the full text of digitized issues, browse by title or date, and view high-resolution page images. The platform supports research in Jewish history, media history, Yiddish studies, Holocaust studies, and the history of Zionism.