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The Jüdische Allgemeine is the most distributed periodical of German Judaism. As a “Weekly newspaper for politics, culture, religion and Jewish life” – its subtitle – the Jüdische Allgemeine sees itself in the journalistic tradition of the great liberal papers of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums. This was founded in 1837 and merged with a previous Jewish publication called: CV-Zeitung from the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens in 1922 and was discontinued on November 3rd, 1938.

History
The newspaper was founded in 1946 as Jüdisches Gemeindeblatt for the Nord-Rhein province and Westfalen and is based in Düssledorf. The newspaper took on the name Jüdisches Gemeindeblatt, which was adapted from Britain. After a few more name changes, the newspaper was renamed Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung in 1973 and then Jüdische Allgemeine in 2002. The founding editor and first editor-in-chief was the Journalist Karl Marx, who died in 1966.

The editorial office moved in 1985 to Bonn and then in 1999 to Berlin. There you will find the editorial office in the same vicinity as Leo-Baeck-Haus which is based in the central council of Jewish people in Germany.

The Jüdische Allgemeine received a European Newspaper Award in March 2003 for Typography and again in November 2009 for the best “Front page of a weekly newspaper”. After the antisemitic riots during the war in Israel and Gaza in 2023, the Jewish community in Munich asked the editorial office to deliver the newspaper to its members in neutral envelopes for security reasons.

Publisher and editorial office
The publisher of the Jüdischer Allgemeinen is the central council for Judaism in Germany. It finances around one-third, and then advertisements and subscriptions contribute to another third. The decrease in advertisement revenue in previous years led to a stronger role for the central council. From 2000 to 2003, Michael Friedman was the deputy chairman of the central council of Judaism in Germany and took over as publisher of the weekly newspaper.

The editorial of the Jüdischen Allgemeinen in Germany in 2010 included seven editors and two generalists, as well as a correspondent in Israel, the USA, and freelancers in several other countries.

Christian Böhme, editor-in-chief since 2005, left the newspaper by mutual agreement on September 30th, 2011. The reason given by the central council in a press release was, the differing opinions on integrating the Jewish weekly newspaper into the structure of the central council. Employees feared the planned conceptual reorientation could turn the Jüdische Allgemeine into an “association magazine”. His successor was Detlef David Kauschke, who was then replaced by Phillipp Peyman Engel in 2023.

Edition
The Jüdische Allgemeine is distributed via subscriptions and newsagents, known as Kioske in German. Between 2002 and 2014, the weekly newspaper faced competition from both the monthly Jüdische Zeitung, which is explicitly critical of the Central Council, and its Russian-language sister publication. Because of this, it experienced a significant drop in publications between 2002 and 2006. Since April 2021, the edition is no longer reported.

Online Publication
Since the Autumn of 2003 the magazine operated a website. After the relaunch of the print edition and website in the spring of 2010, the website will be able to read daily updates in addition to the printed weekly addition. For smartphone users, there is also a mobile online version available. The online offer has around 310,000 unique users per month. The website achieved around 634,000 page codes monthly. (averages December 2019). After the Hamas Terror attacks in Israel in 2023, the Jüdische Allgemeine reported for the first time on Shabbat.

Literature
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
 * Ralph Giordano (Ed.): Scars, traces, witnesses. 15 years of the general weekly newspaper of Jews in Germany. Publisher of the General Weekly Newspaper of Jews in Germany, Düsseldorf 1961.

Weblinks

 * www.juedische-allgemeine.de. The official Jüdischen Allgemeinen website.
 * German National Library works from the publishing house of the Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland in the catalogue of the German National Library.