Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums

[3] The first number of the paper appeared May 2, 1837, and was published by Baumgärtner in Leipzig with the subtitle "Unparteiisches Organ für Alles Jüdische Interesse in Betreff von Politik, Religion, Literatur, Geschichte, Sprachkunde, und Belletristik" (Impartial Organ for All Matters of Jewish Interest Pertaining to Politics, Religion, Literature, History, Philology, and Belles-lettres).

"[1] According to I. M. Jost, who devoted a chapter to the journal in his Neuere Geschichte der Israeliten (1847),[4] the Allgemeine Zeitung "became epoch-making in Jewish history by attempting for the first time to give a general view of the life and conditions of the Jews.

"[5] Philippson's chief aim was the civil emancipation of the Jews,[3] carrying on the fight for that cause in the spirit of Gabriel Riesser's earlier periodical Der Jude (1832-1835).

During the first year Phoebus Philippson, brother of Ludwig, contributed a series of 11 articles under the title "Ideas for an Encyclopedia and a Methodology of Jewish Theology.

[1] It ceased publication with the issue of April 28, 1922,[6] and was succeeded by the C.V.-Zeitung (C.V.-Newspaper), the organ of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith).