Jewish Newspapers

Jewish Newspapers and their archives

Newspapers and their archives are a valuable resource for genealogists. One can derive a wealth of information from the social notices that were common in community newspapers of the past, as well as from detailed obituaries. If you are very lucky there may even be an articles about one of your ancestors!

This page provides links to archives of both community and regular Jewish newspapers from all over the world. Most are historical. Languages include English, French, German, Hebrew, Ladino, Polish and Yiddish. The page is in three parts: Canadian, American and international papers. New links will be added from time-to-time.

Canadian

Last updated September 10 2023.

American

A brief history of Jewish press in America is covered in this article from the National Library of Israel. The majority of the links below are to English language newspapers, but the article provides links to the many Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino newspapers published in the US. Most of our links are to free sites, a few are to subscription sites like newspapers.com. Our listing also contain links to obituary and life-cycle (birth, marriage, death, etc.) databases that have been abstracted from various newspapers. These listings can be isolated by using the ‘Search’ function below. Last updated: August 25 2023.

International

The history of Jewish newspapers and periodicals in Eastern Europe is covered in an article from the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Last updated August 9 2023.