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First published in New York in 1934 as a weekly newspaper for German-Jewish exiles, the Aufbau newspaper provided not only coverage of the day’s major events for German Jews but also let the exiled community place announcements of important life cycle events. If a German-Jewish family wanted to let their former neighbors, friends, and family […]