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The Southern Jewish Weekly (sn78000090) began publication in 1939 when editor Isadore Moscovitz (a University of Florida Journalism graduate) merged the Florida Jewish News (sn 95047205) and the Jewish Citizen (sn 95047204) to create a new newspaper that would be "an independent weekly serving American citizens of Jewish faith". The Weekly considered itself the "oldest and most widely circulated Jewish publication in this territory." The paper was a member of the Religious News Service, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the American Jewish Press Club, and the Independent Jewish Press Service. It was published in Jacksonville once a week, with every issue typically being eight pages. In October 1943, Moscovitz published an announcement noting a change in publication frequency due to World War II. The Weekly became the Southern Jewish Monthly, publishing a single issue every third Friday of the month.- During this time Moscovitz served in the war, leaving his wife Ethel Moscovitz to manage the paper and serve as its editor in the interim. The paper continued as a monthly until January 1947 when Moscovitz returned to the United States and resumed the paper's weekly publication schedule. The Southern Jewish Weekly was "opposed to communism, fascism, and Nazism and is dedicated to the ideals of American democracy". It reported on WWII, providing readers a unique perspective from the community most affected by the tragedies of the war. The newspaper often reported the murders and atrocities endured by the Jewish community. It also also reported on activities of antisemitc hate groups hate groups in the United States, like the Ku Klux Klan. Additionally, the Weekly served as a strong promoter of Jewish faith, including information about Jewish congregations from around the state.- It published information to educate readers on Jewish holidays, including a mini-calendar for readers to refer to and coverage of local celebrations for Passover, Shavuot, Hanukkah, and Rosh Hashanah. Pensacola was home to the first known Jewish community in Florida in 1763 after the Treaty of Paris was signed. Once England acquired Florida, non-Catholics were allowed to freely settle in the colony. The Jewish community in Florida began to flourish in the late 1850s as they began to establish organizations that would meet their educational, social, and health-related needs. The Jacksonville Hebrew Cemetery was the first Jewish institution to be established in the state in 1857. By 1900 there were six established congregations across the state in Pensacola, Jacksonville, Key West, Ocala, and Tampa. The community continued to grow and by 1928 approximately 10,000 Jews lived in Florida, with approximately 10% of the community residing in Jacksonville.- As of 2020, over 600,000 Jews are living in Florida, making up 3% of the overall state's population.

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The weekly Jacksonville (FL) Sun [LCCN: sn95047216], a self-declared "Democratic" newspaper, began publication on November 18, 1905 and was suspended on September 12, 1908 for unknown reasons. The Sun was a weekly edition of the Tallahassee (FL) Morning Sun. Both titles were edited by Claude L'Engle (1868-1919), a native of Jacksonville and United States Representative for Florida's fourth Congressional district roughly spanning northeast Florida from Jacksonville to Tallahassee from 1913 through 1915. L'Engle also edited the newspaper Dixie [LCCN sn92060426] in Jacksonville from 1910 through approximately 1913 when he retired. Dixie would be criticized for being against free speech. And, it also reflected L'Engle's anti-Catholic feelings. While the Legislature was in session, the Sun covered the Legislature extensively. Of note in 1907 was the disfranchise by both House and Senate bodies of Florida's African-Americans. It also covered naval stores production, an important part of north/northeast Florida's economy at that time.--E. Kesse, University of Florida Digital Library Center.

Jacksonville (Fla.) --- Duval County (Fla.) --- Tallahassee (Fla.) --- Leon County (Fla.)

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For many years, the Florida Agriculturist [LCCN: sn96027724] was the only agricultural publication in Florida. It began publishing in 1878 and ceased publication in 1911. In the 1884 edition of Edwin Aldin & Bro.'s American Newspaper Catalogue [LCCN a18000248], the publication is described as a large eight-page newspaper, the cost of a one-year subscription was two dollars.- The newspaper was said to inform readers of "the capabilities of the State of Florida, its productions and resources," and it was "full of the experiences of Old Settlers and an instructor for the new." "You will learn," the American Newspaper Catalogue continued, "from it all about orange culture and other semi-tropical fruit, market gardening, etc., besides much general information of interest about all parts of the state." Prior to passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, a surprising number of Chinese immigrants made their way to Florida, and their labor in state agriculture was strongly supported by the Florida Agriculturist (see the issues for 24 January 1874 and 9 March 1881). Growing agricultural businesses, shipping industries, railroad schedules and other topics of interest to Florida's agricultural communities is also reported. The address for subscriptions to the Florida Agriculturist was C. Codrington & Co., DeLand, Florida, the presumed publishing location.- In 1878 and still at the turn of the 20th century, DeLand was a cross-roads of sorts for Florida. Located in Volusia County (FL) on the Atlantic Ocean, DeLand was, for a time, a terminal point and later a hub for railways reaching into southern Florida. With the expansion of railroad lines in Florida and the opening of the Port of Jacksonville in the later part of the first decade of the 20th century, DeLand would eventually be supplanted by Jacksonville (FL) as an economic hub of Florida. The Florida Agriculturist was a weekly from its start in 1878 through 1907. It became a monthly in 1908 continuing through June 1911 when it ceased publication. The editor was C. Codrington in 1878. Codrington, a native of Jamaica, was an importer of ornamental and exotic plants into Florida. Many Codrington plants were used in the landscaping of new Florida tourist attractions. Many catalogers of U.S.- newspapers regard the Florida Agriculturist as a periodical rather than as a newspaper because plant orders could be sent to the newspaper's subscriptions office and others, because the newspaper functioned so well, and in all likelihood originally, as a catalog for the C. Codrington Company. One source (Geo. P. Rowell and Co.'s American Newspaper Directory [LCCN sn82007064]) suggests that the newspaper was established as early as 1874, but this may have been a forerunner of the newspaper, perhaps even a catalog for the C. Codrington Company. The Codrington family also published other newspapers in DeLand, among them the DeLand (FL) News [LCCN sn92062121]. E.O. Painter was publisher and editor in 1887. According to his obituary published in the Proceedings of the American Pomological Society, 33rd biennial session, Painter came to DeLand from New York with his parents at the age of sixteen, largely unschooled but an avid reader.- He cleared land for his own orange grove and went to work for the Florida Agriculturist as a journeyman printer. In 1885, he bought a half-interest in the paper and later bought a whole interest paid for by the sale of an orange grove. Painter was so successful that the E.O. Painter Printing Company spun off from the Florida Agriculturist and, today (ca. 2008) remains as one of Florida's oldest and most successful printers. Painter continued as editor and owner of the Florida Agriculturist until 1907, when he sold all of his rights and interests in the paper, which was subsequently published in Jacksonville. The Port of Jacksonville had opened the previous year and the City of Jacksonville had begun to supplant DeLand as an economic center in Florida.--E. Kesse, University of Florida Digital Library Center.

Agriculture --- De Land (Fla.) --- Volusia County (Fla.) --- Jacksonville (Fla.) --- Duval County (Fla.) --- Florida. --- Florida

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African American newspapers --- African Americans --- Journaux noirs américains --- Noirs américains --- Jacksonville (Fla.) --- Duval County (Fla.) --- Florida. --- Florida --- Florida

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