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The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2009 54(1):219-241; doi:10.1093/lbaeck/ybp005
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Diplomacy in the Diaspora: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Berlin (1922–1933)

Verena Dohrn

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   THE JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY (JTA)
 
On the occasion of the 1,000th issue of its Daily News, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) published a brochure describing itself as "a universal clearing house for Jewish News, a medium for international understanding".1 As an anniversary publication, the brochure provided little information about the agency's internal history and structures, but stressed its goals and praised its efforts and successes. Well-known public figures, mainly Jewish authorities such as Louis Marshall, Lord Balfour and Albert Einstein, were quoted on the news service's importance. In contrast to these contemporary appraisals, the history of news agencies is silent on the JTA.2 Only some studies of the Jewish press more generally,3 memoirs,4 and documents in various archives discuss the Jewish news service.5 The most convincing source is the JTA Bulletin, the embodiment of the agency's work. The JTA archives were lost when the New York flat of agency founder and director Jacob Landau . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   THE JTA IN BERLIN
 

   THE JTA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE
 

   THE JTA – A CASSANDRA FROM THE JEWISH DIASPORA
 

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