The ''Neue Volkszeitung'' (New People's Newspaper) was a

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. The paper had a moderate social democratic orientation and is remembered as a leading anti-

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American publication in the German language during the years of

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History

''Neue Volkszeitung'' was launched in

in December 1932 as the successor of the '' New Yorker Volkszeitung.''Elliott Shore,
The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850 - 1940
'. Urbana, IL: University. of Illinois Press, 1992; pg. 181. The bulk of the paper's readers were inherited from that recently defunct long-running publication.Anne Spier, "German-Speaking Peoples," in Dirk Hoerder with Christiane Harzig (eds.), ''The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s: An Annotated Bibliography: Volume 3: Migrants from Southern and Western Europe.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987; pp. 439-440. Average circulation in 1934 stood just shy of 22,000 copies per issue. Initially, the newspaper sought to portray itself as an organ of German-American labor organizations, but gradually it became closely linked to the exile organization of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, serving as that organization's semi-official voice in America.Egbert Krispyn,
Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile
'' Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1978; pg. 125 The paper was published by a company known as the Progressive Publishing Association, Inc. The ''Neue Volkszeitung'' pursued a moderate social democratic political line that stood in opposition both to

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and

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. Content included political news from Germany and the United States, coverage of the international labor movement, sports news, a women's section, travel reports, and coverage of theater and the arts. ''Neue Volkszeitung'' continued publication until the first week of August 1949.

Footnotes

* Karl J.R. Arndt and May E Olson, ''German-American Newspapers and Periodicals, 1732-1955 / Deutsch-amerikanische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, 1732-1955.'' Revised Second Edition. Heidelberg, Germany: Quelle and Meyer, 1961. * Karl J.R. Arndt and May E Olson, ''The German Language Press of the Americas, 1732-1968: History and Bibliography.'' Munich, Germany: Verlag Dokumentation, 1973. * Robert E. Cazden, ''German Exile Literature in America.'' Chicago: American Library Association, 1970. * Dirk Hoerder with Christianeharzig, ''The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s: Volume 3: Migrants from Southern and Western Europe.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987. * Dirk Hoerder and Thomas Weber (eds.), ''Glimpses of the German-American Radical Press.'' Bremen, Germany: Labor Newspaper Preservation Project, 1985. * Carl Wittke, ''The German Language Press in America.'' Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1957. {{Authority control Newspapers established in 1932 Publications disestablished in 1949 German-American culture in New York City Socialism in New York (state) Socialist newspapers German-language newspapers published in New York (state)

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