Eliezer Lipman Silberman, German rabbi and journalist, is credited with establishing the first weekly newspaper in the Hebrew language at Lyck, Prussia, in 1856.
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The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
