The Yiddish press and the making of South African Jewry in the British world: exclusion, libel, and Jewish nationalism, 1890-1914.

The article narrates the history of the Yiddish press and its role in the development of South African Jewish community and its political institutions from 1890 to 1914. Topics discussed include international networks as the focus of the approach of the Yiddish press to immigration historiography, Yiddish as metonym for Jewish rights, Zionist orientation of the Yiddish press, Jewish nationalism, libels and limits of Yiddish influence, and Yiddish press in a colonial British world.