Jacob Magidoff (June 22, 1869 – August 26, 1943) was a Russian-born Jewish-American Yiddish journalist and newspaper editor.
He immigrated to America in 1886, settling in New York and initially working in the sweatshops as a shirt stitcher while studying in the evening.
He worked for some time as an English teacher while studying at New York University School of Law.
[5] He ran a daily column in the paper called "Kurts un Sharf” (Short and Sharp).
From 1925 to 1928, he edited the weekly Der Amerikaner (The American), which published articles on Yiddish writers.