An Israeli-born daughter of Holocaust survivors agreed to salvage a German- language Jewish newspaper that was on the brink of shutting down operations. Chaja Koren’s decision to buy Aufbau, which was founded in 1934 to serve German Jews fleeing the Nazis, came after the paper issued an appeal for funds. Aufbau, which is based in New York, has a circulation of 5,000.
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