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Congress Weekly

The Congress Weekly magazine was a periodical, published in New York, by the American Jewish Congress.

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The Congress Weekly magazine was a periodical,12 published in New York, by the American Jewish Congress.

The magazine was "a review of Jewish interests.".34 It was founded in the 1930s.2

Samuel Caplan was its editor from 1940 till 1966.5

Among its contributors was author and poet Judd L. Teller.6

The Congress weekly magazine became a bi-weekly in 1959,5 known as Congress bi-weekly magazine.789101112

It later (at least since 1975) became a monthly magazine, Congress Monthly,131415161718 with articles on public policy and public affairs.19

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  1. Congress, United States (1957). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 547.
  2. "Jewish Periodicals". The American Jewish Year Book. 71: 594–601. 1970. ISSN 0065-8987. JSTOR 23604074.
  3. Serials & Newspapers in Microform. University Microfilms. 1992.
  4. American Jewish Congress (1941). "Congress weekly; a review of Jewish interests". Congress Weekly; A Review of Jewish Interests. OCLC 1353692.
  5. "Funeral Services Held for Samuel Caplan, 74, Retired Editor of 'congress Bi-weekly'". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. May 9, 1969. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  6. Chametzky, Jules; Felstiner, John; Flanzbaum, Hilene; Hellerstein, Kathryn (2001). Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 530. ISBN 978-0-393-04809-4.
  7. American Jewish Congress (1959). "Congress bi-weekly". Congress Bi-weekly. OCLC 3477442.
  8. Congress Bi-weekly. American Jewish Congress. 1962.
  9. Congress Bi-weekly. American Jewish Congress. 1963.
  10. Congress Bi-weekly. American Jewish Congress. 1964.
  11. Congress Bi-weekly. American Jewish Congress. 1965.
  12. Congress Bi-weekly. American Jewish Congress. 1973.
  13. Cohen, Naomi Wiener (1992). Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality. Oxford University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-19-506537-4.
  14. The Oxbridge Directory of Ethnic Periodicals. Oxbridge Communications. 1979. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-917460-06-7.
  15. Dorr, Steven R. (1981). Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.C., for Middle Eastern Studies: Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, The Arabian Peninsula, Israel, Turkey, Iran. Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-87474-372-2.
  16. Singer, David; Grossman, Lawrence (2003). American Jewish Year Book 2003. VNR AG. p. 699. ISBN 978-0-87495-126-4.
  17. "Collection: Records of The American Jewish Congress | The Center for Jewish History ArchivesSpace". archives.cjh.org. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  18. "American Jewish Congress (AJCongress) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  19. Jerome A Chanes, "A Primer on the American Jewish Community", 3rd ed. June, 2008, ajc.org