Anton Kaufman (1883 – January 1, 1943) was a reporter for the Berliner Morgen-Zeitung and later the publisher of the Detroit Daily Chronicle and the Newark Jewish Chronicle.
[2] As a young man, he worked as a reporter for the Berliner Morgen-Zeitung.
[1] He became the publisher of The Detroit Daily Chronicle in 1914, and when that publication failed, he moved to Newark, New Jersey, in 1921 and became the publisher of the Newark Jewish Chronicle.
[1][3][4] In 1934, he was arrested, along with his son, Theodore Newman Kaufman for the robbery of Sandor Alexander Balint, who had developed a process to speed the aging of wine.
[4] He took his own life on January 1, 1943, when he jumped from a window of his room at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, New Jersey.