Aufbau


Aufbau is a journal targeted at German-speaking Jews around the globe founded in 1934. Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Stefan Zweig wrote for the publication. Until 2004 it was published in New York City. It is now published in Zürich.

History

The Aufbau was founded by the German–Jewish Club, which was later renamed the New World Club. The original purpose of the journal was as a monthly newsletter for the club, which included information and helpful facts for Jewish refugees.

Manfred George

The purpose of the publication changed markedly when, in 1939, Manfred George was nominated as the new editor. George took the journal from a monthly newsletter to one of the leading anti-Nazi publications of the German press in exile. George, within the first 5 years of his tenure, took the circulation of the journal from 8,000 to 40,000. Before Manfred George became the editor of the Aufbau, he was a well-known editor of a Berlin daily, Tempo, and a left-wing journalist in the Weimar Republic

Archives, curated collections, and reproductions

All issued, from inception through 2004, are accessible online via The Leo Baeck Institute at.

The ''Aufbau'' database

From September 1, 1944, through September 27, 1946, the Aufbau printed numerous lists of Jewish Holocaust survivors located in Europe, as well as a few lists of victims. The data include information taken from lists which appeared between late 1944 and early 1947. The lists published in Aufbau were prepared by many different organizations, often by Jewish relief organizations or by officials in displaced persons' camps.

The '''' Indexing Project

The Aufbau Indexing Project is an online database of names that appeared in announcements published in the Aufbau.