Nowy Świat, the Polish Morning World
One hundred years ago today … Polish-speaking New Yorkers could get their daily news in Nowy Świat. Below is a section of its March 4, 1920 front page.
Courtesy Józef Piłsudski Institute of America.
Nowy Świat was founded in 1919, at a moment when, it is worth noting, the modern nation of Poland was being formed in the wake of World War I. Edited by Waclaw Blacewicz, It offered international news, slanted toward its relevance to Poland, plus arts features. Its run ended in 1971.
The daily was published by the Nowy Świat Publishing Company, housed at 424 East 9th Street, in the heart of the Lower East Side, where much of the Polish population was living. Oddly enough, in June 1920, the company’s by-laws regarding stock purchases were violated in such a way that lead to a legal battle ending up in the Supreme Court seven years later. “Nowy Świat Publishing Co., Inc. Vs. Sophie Misiewicz and Louis Ehrenberg” arrived before the Court of Appeals of the State of New York on July, 20, 1927, with the decision favoring the plaintiff.
wRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, JUNE 25, 2020.
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