Shalom! I received the following email with regards to a collection of recent Jewish newspapers from the Los Angeles area. If you are interested in taking Ted up on his offer, Please contact me directly.
Shavu’ah tov, Jackie Donation of Los Angeles Jewish newspapers offered I am writing to ask if you would like to receive a donation of a collection of about a decade of Jewish newspapers from Los Angeles and Southern California. I began to collect the Jewish Journal in 2009 because the Los Angeles Public Library did not collect the newspaper, and I had tried for about 10 years – unsuccessfully – to interest the librarians there in collecting and preserving the newspaper. Since then, I have also collected several other Jewish newspapers and/or magazines. I can no longer afford to store these newspapers and magazines, and so will be disposing of them by February 1, 2019. I hope to find a local library to accept them before then; otherwise, I will have to throw them out. The newspapers/magazines that I have collected include the following: • Jewish Journal, from May 15, 2009 through the end of 2018. This collection is incomplete in the early years. For 2009, there are about 50% of the issues from May 15 forward. For 2010, I have 40 of the 51 issues; for 2011, 44 of the 51 issues; for 2012, 49 of the 51 issues; for 2013, 50 of the 51 issues. 2014 through 2016 and 2018 are complete, while 1 issue is missing for 2017. • Tribe, a magazine published by the same publishers as the Jewish Journal, focusing on Ventura County and the Conejo Valley. The magazine was monthly, with two double issues, producing 10 or 11 issues per year (depending on how they were counted, since the double issues were for June/July and December/January). My collection includes 8 issues for 2010; 5 issues for 2011; 10 issues for 2012 (missing the December 2011/January 2012 issue); all issues for 2013 and 2014; and all but one of the issues for 2015. • Jewish Home, a newspaper published for the Orthodox Jewish community in Los Angeles. It has far more coverage of the local Jewish community than the Jewish Journal, but only of the Orthodox community. The newspaper is published approximately every two weeks, and my collection starts in the middle of volume 2 in 2014. For 2014, it includes issues 13 through 24, from July 10 to December 18; for 2015 (volume 3) there is a complete run of 26 issues; for 2016 (volume 4), it includes 25 of 28 issues; for 2017 (volume 5), 21 of 28 issues; and for 2018 (volume 6), 24 of 26 issues. • Shavua Israel, a weekly Jewish newspaper published in Hebrew and aimed at the Israeli community in Southern California. My collection is partial, including 4 issues for the second half of 2014; 6 issues for 2015; 19 issues for 2016; 18 issues for 2017; and 29 issues for 2018. • We Are In America, a monthly Jewish magazine published in Hebrew and aimed at the Israeli community in Southern California. My collection is again partial, including 5 issues in 2015; 8 issues in 2016; 10 issues in 2017; and 11 issues in 2018. I can provide more detailed spreadsheets showing which issues are included, and which are missing, upon request. I can deliver these newspapers and magazines to your library if you are willing to accept them. I am sending this letter to librarians at the Los Angeles Public Library, American Jewish University, and Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion. If I can find the name of a librarian at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, I will also send a copy to them. If you have no use for these newspapers but know of another library (Jewish or not) that might want to preserve these issues, please feel free to either pass this e-mail along, or forward to me the names of an appropriate librarian there. Sincerely, Ted Gostin Genealogical Research P.O. Box 56321 Sherman Oaks, CA 91413-1321 (818) 501-5852 tedgos...@generationspress.com www.generationspress.com/research.html -- Jackie Ben-Efraim "Although the books had changed, I the reader had not." Micha Yosef Berdichevsky 1865-1921 Special Collections Librarian Ostrow Library American Jewish University 15600 Mulholland Drive Bel Air, CA 90077
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