Brazil’s oldest Yiddish newspaper, the weekly Yiddish Presse, marked its 40th anniversary with the publication of a special 24-page edition. The paper was founded in 1929 as a daily but was made a weekly after World War II. Its editor for the past 18 years has been David Markus, the JTA correspondent here.
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