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1. DefinitionIn contrast to the anti-Semitic term Judenpresse (“Jew-press”), which referred pejoratively to the activity of Jews as journalists or publishers beginning in the second half of the 19th century, the term  Jewish press includes all those periodicals that (1) concern themselves overwhelmingly with Jewish themes, (2) are made possible by Jewish publishers and editors, and (3) are published for a primarily Jewish audience. This includes both Jewish newspapers and periodicals in the narrower sense and the numerous yea…