The American Israelite

The American Israelite

August 5, 2010, front page
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Publisher	Netanel Deutsch
Editor	Netanel Deutsch
Founded	July 15, 1854
Language	American English
Headquarters	18 West Ninth Street Cincinnati, Ohio
Country	United States
Circulation	6,500 (as of 2016)[1]
OCLC number	11975053
Website	www.americanisraelite.com
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The American Israelite is an English-language Jewish newspaper published weekly in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1854 as The Israelite and assuming its present name in 1874, it is the longest-running English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the United States^[2] and the second longest-running Jewish newspaper in the world, after the London-based Jewish Chronicle (founded in 1841).^[3][4][5]

The paper's founder, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, and publisher, Edward Bloch and his Bloch Publishing Company, were both very influential figures in American Jewish life. During the 19th century, The American Israelite became the leading organ for Reform Judaism in America. During the early 20th century, it helped geographically dispersed American Jews, especially in the West and the South of the country, keep in touch with Jewish affairs and their religious identity.