Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is a press agency founded in The Hague on February 6, 1917 by the then twenty-five-year-old journalist Jacob Landau , which was initially called the Jewish Correspondence Bureau . In 1919 the company moved to London under its current name; Jacob Landau and Meir Grossmann were in charge at the time. In 1922, New York City became the new headquarters.
History and goals
Landau founded the Jewish Correspondence Bureau immediately before the entry of the United States into World War II . The time was marked on the one hand by the vehement discussion about the entry of the United States into the war, on the other hand by the strong immigration movement, especially among Eastern European Jews. The latter led to families being separated by distances that were barely negotiable at the time.
From a country perspective, political and social developments in the United States had a strong influence on the lives of people in other countries, while at the same time there was a great need for news from the countries of origin of the immigrants. A reliable, globally active collection point for news from a Jewish perspective should be created.
The JTA is politically neutral and not particularly connected or obliged to any branch of Judaism .
organization
The JTA has no profit-making intent. The seat is in New York City . It is headed by a board of directors consisting of a maximum of 75 people. Representatives of all forms of the Jewish religion and Zionism should be represented on this board .
Customers and supporters
One of the best-known newspapers supplied by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is Forward in New York, in Germany the Jüdische Allgemeine is one of the buyers and in Switzerland the weekly magazine Tachles . In addition, the JTA is supported by many member associations of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), previously United Jewish Communities (UJC).
archive
Since 2011, the JTA has made a digitized form of its extensive archive available to the public. The JTA's searchable, digital online archive contains around 250,000 freely accessible full-text articles dating back to 1923.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fruma Mohrer, Marek Web: Guide to the YIVO Archives , ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY 1998, ISBN 0-7656-0130-3 , p. 143
- ^ UJC to change name .
- ^ Gary Price: JTA Jewish News Archive Launches Online Archive With a Quarter-Million Articles . In: Infodocket.com , May 4, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ^ Jordana Horn: Online archives chronicle Jewish history, redress injustice . In: The Jerusalen Post , May 5, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2014.