Israelitisches Familienblatt
ISRAELITISCHES FAMILIENBLATT
ISRAELITISCHES FAMILIENBLATT , leading non-party Jewish weekly in pre-Hitler Germany, founded in 1898 in Hamburg by M. Lessmann, publisher, and M. Deutschlaender, editor. Among the weekly's editors in the 1930s were Julian Lehmann, Alfred Kupferberg (Nehushtan), and Ezriel *Carlebach. The circulation of 25,000 in 1935 increased to 30,000 in 1937. With its numerous supplements – illustrated, literary, and educational – and its full coverage of news from the Jewish world at large as well as every community in Germany, the Familienblatt wielded considerable political and educational influence and was a model of Jewish newspaper production. Originally it was the newspaper of the Hamburg Jewish community but in 1935 it was transferred to Berlin, where it became the official organ of the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden (Central Organization of German Jews; see *Reichsvereinigung). In the same year the Nazis prohibited the publication of the Familienblatt for three months. It permanently ceased publication after Kristallnacht in November 1938.
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Edelheim-Muehsam, in: ylbi, 5 (1960), 308–29; ej, s.v.Juedische Presse im 19 Jahrhundert … (1967), 43.