Articles tracing the history of the Jewish community in this city and state — some of the data going back as far as the year 1727 — are printed in the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, local Jewish weekly, in a special issue this week which marked the 45th anniversary of the founding of the newspaper. The history of Milwaukee Jewry showed that the first Jewish settler here, in 1835, was Solomon Juneau.
Among the many messages of congratulations received on the occasion of the anniversary by Irving G. Rhodes, publisher of the newspaper, were letters from Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Gov. Warren P. Knowles, Milwaukee Mayor Henry W. Maier and many other notables in the general and Jewish communities.
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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.
