Ein unparteiisches Organ für alle jüdischen Interessen – A non-partisan organ for all Jewish affairs
Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums: ein unparteiisches Organ für alle jüdischen Interessen in Betreff von Politik, Religion, Literatur, Geschichte, Sprachkunde und Belletristik, edited by Ludwig Phillipson (Founder), Gustav Karpeles, Ludwig Geiger, B. Meyer, K. Räbe, J. H. Lüder, Gottfried Fritzsche, H. Lotze. Leipzig 1837-1922. German | Call Number: Zsq 3122 (incomplete), additional microfilms | Digital copy via Compact Memory as part of Frankfurt's Digital Judaica Collections.
The Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, also known as AZJ, was the longest running German-Jewish newspaper. Founded in 1837 by Ludwig Philippson (1811-1889), it appeared until 1922. Its direct successor the C.V.-Zeitung ran until 1938. Although Philippson – journalist and author, intellectual and entrepreneur – styled the AJZ as a “unparteiisches Organ für alle jüdischen Interessen" (a non-partisan organ for all Jewish affairs), it was undoubtedly the main public voice of liberal Judaism in Germany. In the 1830s and 1840s the AZJ served as one of the main arenas of the often heated debates on religious reform in which Philippson himself played a key role.
The AZJ reported on contemporary Jewish life in the German lands and beyond, covering politics and culture and reporting on developments with the Jewish communities. The AZJ served also as an intellectual forum, publishing literary and scholarly works, as well as book reviews on various topics. Over its long run the AZJ published several supplements which would often focus on Jewish education, scholarship, literature or the arts.
