Gershon DovBer Jacobson (May 30, 1934 – May 29, 2005) was the founder, editor and publisher of Der Algemeiner Journal, one of the largest Yiddish-language weekly newspapers in North America.
[1] Born in Moscow on May 30, 1933,[1] Jacobson began his journalistic career in Paris writing for French newspapers following the war in the early 1950s.
Gershon Jacobson also worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune and in the 1960s replaced Elie Wiesel as the UN correspondent for Israel's largest daily, Yediot Acharonot.
In 1972 he founded The Algemeiner Journal, the largest Yiddish weekly newspaper, which he published and edited till his death on May 29, 2005.
After the Tribune ceased publication, Jacobson moved to the New York Post and then to Newsweek, and was later city editor for Der Tog-Morgen Journal, a Yiddish-language daily.