Product Description
Offered is a bound copy containing original material from 1948-1949 edited and published by William Zukerman and the Jewish World News Service out of New York City.
With a gold-embossed spine stating "JEWISH NEWS LETTERS - VOL.
II NO.
1 [through] VOL.
III No.
15 [should state 16] - JAN.
7, 1949 [through] DEC.
1949]," the volume contains the following documents: 1) an early issue, unnumbered, of the "Jewish Newsletter" dated June 4, 1948 (five pages) published three weeks after Israel's Declaration of Independence (May 14) and subsequent invasion (May 15) by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria; 2) 44 different, original issues from 1949 of the "Jewish Newsletter" (comprising Volumes II and III, missing only two issues); 3) six special news releases published in 1949, issued separately from the "Jewish Newsletter"; and 4) a typed and signed letter dated October 1, 1949 from William Zukerman to Rabbi Dr.
Elmer Berger, Executive Director of the American Council for Judaism.
*ONE* - Jewish Newsletter dated June 4, 1948 containing five pages with blank verso (including "A Letter from Israel," which begins, "Your letter arrived when a band of Arabs attacked our 'Kwutza.
' Throughout the week we fought day and night.
On our side there were dead and wounded, and on the Arab side there were 150 casualties"); *TWO* - Volumes II and III containing 44 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter" (variously subtitled) with earlier issues printed on one side (with blank verso) and later issues printed on both sides; 4 printed pages each, with one issue 5 pages, as follows (missing only two issues): Vol.
II - No.
1 (January 7, 1949), 2, [missing 3], 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, [missing 12], 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (July 1, 1949); four subsequent issues numbered Vol.
III No.
1 (July 8), 2 (July 15), 3 (July 22), 4 (July 29), and one un-numbered issue (August 26, 1949) printed on Jewish World News Service stationery - note that Vol.
III No.
1 begins again in September with new content, as follows: Vol.
III - No.
1 (Sept.
9), 2 (Sept.
16), 3 (Sept.
23), 4 (Sept.
30), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 [Nov.
11, mis-numbered 8], 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 [Dec.
23, 1949 mis-numbered 15]; *THREE* - six news releases printed on "Jewish World News Service" stationery: two "Late News" (April 25, 1949, three pages; May 2, 1949, two pages); three "News from Around the Jewish World" (July 1, 1949, two pages; July 15, 1949, two pages; October 14, 1949, two pages, #102 - numbering most likely includes issues to date of the "Jewish Newsletter"); and "Jewish News Around the World" (November 4, 1949, one page, #105 - numbering most likely includes issues to date of "The Jewish Newsletter"); *FOUR* - typed and signed one-page letter dated October 1, 1949 from William Zukerman (signed in pen "Wm Zukerman") on Jewish Newsletter stationery to Rabbi Dr.
Elmer Berger, Executive Director of the American Council for Judaism (ACJ) on various topics.
With hundreds of topical headlines, the JEWISH.
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