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New York City Newspapers at The New York Public Library: Non-English Language

This guide provides an overview of the Library's collection of New York City newspapers.

Titles by Language

Note: All entries are for microfilm except where listed as digital resources and include both Daily and Weekly newspapers.

ARABIC

Microfilm
al-Bayan (1912-1915)


Print & Microfilm
al-Liwāʼ al-ʻArabī = Allewaa al-Arabi (1996-2002)


Print
ʻArab Būst = Arab Post (1996-2000)


Print
Arab World. [New York] (1955-1972)


Microfilm
Hudá (1901-1971)
Digital Resource
Hudá (1903-1904; Jan-Jun 1908)


Print
Jurab al-Kurdi (1908-1913) 
Digital Resource
Jurab al-Kurdi (1907-1913)


Mirat al-Gharb = Mirror of the West (1910-1924)
Digital Resource
Mirat al-Gharb = Mirror of the West (1899-1961) (North Carolina State University Khayrallah Center Archive)

ARMENIAN

Print & Microfilm
The Armenian Reporter (1967-2008)
Digital Resources
The Armenian Reporter (2006-2010)
The Armenian Reporter International (1991-2006)


Print & Microfilm
Hoosharar (1908-1986)


Print
Gotchnag (1910-1968)

CHINESE 

Chinese Nationalist Daily (1927-1958)


Hua Mei Jih Pao = China Tribune (1943-1947)


Lian He Ri Bao = The United Journal (1983-1990)


Print & Microfilm
Meizhou Hua Giao Ri Bao = China Daily News (1940-1978)


Print & Microfilm
Meizhou Ri Bao =  Chinese Journal (1958-1982)


Print
Mei Zhou Shi Bao = The Sino American Times (2005-2006) 


Print & Microfilm
Shi Jie Ri Bao = World Journal East (1976-)


Print & Microfilm
Shi Jie Ri Bao = World Journal Weekly (2001-2012)


Print
Zhong Mei Zhou Bao = Chinese-American Weekly (1948-1970)


Print & Microfilm
Zhongguo Ri Bao = China Daily (1981-2009)

Digital Resource
China Daily = Zhongguo Ri Bao (1995-present)


Print & Microfilm
Zhong bao = Centre Daily News (1982-1989)

CZECH

Tydni List Hlas Lidu (1891)


Print & Microfilm
Nedelni New-Yorske Listy (1907-1950)
Tydenni Zpravy (1916-1944)
Hlas Lidu (1905)

FRENCH

GERMAN 

Der Pionier (1856-1878)


New-Yorker Demokrat (1860 -1875)


New-Yorker Abend-Zeitung (1872-1875) [Daily]


Atlantische Blatter und New Yorker Kladderadatsch (1872-1875) [Sunday]


Frank Leslie's Illustrirte Zeitung (1872-1894)
Digital Resource
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper


Herold Abend Zeitung, New Yorker (1887-1934)


New Yorker Herold Morgenblatt (In German with columns in English) (1916-1919)


Print & Microfilm
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold (1853-1961)
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold (1934-1991)
New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung (New York, N.Y. : Weekly) (1851-1854)
New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung (New York, N.Y. : Daily) (1853-1934)
Digital Resource
New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung (New York, N.Y. : Daily) Included in America's Historical Newspapers

New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung (New York, N.Y. : Weekly) (1851-1854)


Deutsch-Amerika (1915-1935)

Sonntagsblatt der N.Y. Staats-Zeitung (1856-1920)

Sonntagsblatt Staats-Zeitung und Herold (1875)

Wochenblatt der New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung (1836-1914 Weekly)


New Yorker Volkszeitung (1894-1932)
Digital Resource
New Yorker Volkszeitung (1889-1932)


Der Deutsche Staten Islander (1874)
Call number: *ZAN-13540


New-Yorker Zeitung (1883 -1896)
Call number: *ZY (New-Yorker Zeitung. New York, N.Y.)
Gross-New-Yorker Zeitung (1896, 1898 - 1908) with Gaps
Call number: *ZY (New Yorker Zeitung, N.Y)
New-Yorker Zeitung (1908 - 1913)
Call number: *ZY (New Yorker Zeitung, N.Y)

GREEK

Atlantis (1904-1972)


Print & Microfilm
Ethnikos Keryx = The National Herald (1915-2021)


Print & Microfilm
Proine/Proini (Chiefly in Greek with some English) (1980-2001)

HEBREW

Print
The Asmonean (1849-1858)
Digital Resource
The Asmonean (1849-1858)

HUNGARIAN

Amerikai Magyar Nepszava (In Hungarian and English)  (1907-1966)

INDIAN

Print & Microfilm
Malayāḷaṃ Patṟaṃ = Malayalam Pathram (1992-2010) (In Malayalam and English)


Print & Microfilm
Nādaṃ (1986-1996)


Print & Microfilm
Saṃbāda Bicitra (1983-2004)

IRISH

The Irish-American (1849-1915)
Call number: *ZY The Irish-American


The Irish Nation ( 1881-1883)
Call number: *ZY (New York Irish Nation)
Digital Resource
The Irish Nation (1881-1883)


Gaelic American (1903-1951)
Digital Resource
Gaelic American (1905-1907)


Print & Microfilm
The Irish Advocate (1910-1986) (In English)
Irish Echo (1935-)
Irish Echo (1986-1988)
Irish Voice (1990-2023)

ITALIAN

Cristoforo Colombo (1891-1894)
Call number: *ZY (Cristoforo Colombo. Italian, N.Y.)


Bolletino della Sera (1908-1922)


ll Giornale Italiano (1909-1919)


L'Araldo Italiano (1895-1912)


L' Eco d' Italia (1850-1894)
Digital Resource
L'Eco d'Italia (1890-1896)


II Nuovo Mondo (1925-1931)


Print & Microfilm
Progresso Italo Americano (1881-1988)
Digital Resource
Il Progresso Italo-Americano (1889-1911)


Telegrafo, il (1903- 1919)


Digital Resource
The Italian Voice = La Voce Italiana (1990-present)

 

JAPANESE

Hokubei Shimpo (1945-1985) 

Print
Nichi-Bei Shūhō (1906-1908) (Japanese and English)

Nyū Yōku Nichi-Bei Shinbun = The New York Nichibei (1963-1993)

NORWEGIAN

Print & Microfilm
Nordisk Tidende (Norway Times) (1985-1989)

POLISH

Kurier Plus (2001 - 2012)

Print & Microfilm
Nowy Dziennik = Polish Daily News (1971-)
Nowy Swiat = The Polish Morning News (1939-1971)

Nowa Trybuna Opolska (1993-2008)

Robotnik Polski (1907-1960)

RUSSIAN

Print & Microfilm
Novoe Russkoe Slovo = New Russian Word (1917-2009)
Digital Resource
Novoe Russkoe Slovo Digital Archive (1910-2010)

SLOVAK

Glas Naroda  (1911-1963)
Print & Microfilm
New Yorkský Denník = New York Daily (1914-1974)

Slovák v Amerike = Slovak American (1968-1987)
Digital Resource
Slovák v Amerike = Slovak American (2009-2020)

SPANISH 

Diario - La Prensa (1963-1997)
El Diario de Nueva York = New York's Spanish daily (1948-1963)
La Prensa (1917-1963)

Digital Resource
El Diario, La prensa (1992-Present)
Diario de Nueva York (1948-1963)

Digital Resource
La Prensa (1919-1929)


La Tribuna de New Jersey & New York (1988-1994)


West Bronx on the Move - Oeste del Bronx en Camino (1972-1973)

SWEDISH

Print & Microfilm
Nordstjernan (1907-)

SWISS

Amerikanische Schweizer Zeitung (1884-1973) (In German, English, French, and Italian)
Swiss American Review (1973-1988) (In German, English and French)

Der Grutlianer (1868-1911)

YIDDISH

See also, YIDDISH LANGUAGE PERIODICALS ON MICROFILM  in the Dorot Division

Forṿerṭs = Forward= Vorwärts (1897-present)
Digital Resource
Forṿerṭs = Forward= Vorwärts (1897-1979) (Historical Jewish Press)


Fraye Arbayter Shtime (1890-1977)
Digital Resource
Fraye Arbayter Shtime (1890-1977) (Historical Jewish Press)


Morgen-Zshurnal (1906-1928)
Digital Resource
Morgen-Zshurnal (1906-1922) (Historical Jewish Press)


Morgen-Zshurnal, Yidishes tageblat (1928-1938)


Morgen-Zshurnal (1938-1953)


Teglikher herold (Daily Jewish Herald) (1894-1905)
Digital Resource
Teglikher herold (Daily Jewish Herald) (1894-1905) (Historical Jewish Press)


Tog (1914-1919)

Digital Resource
Tog (1914-1919) (Historical Jewish Press) (The National Library of Israel Newspaper Collection)


Tog  (1922-1953)

Digital Resource
Tog  (1922-1953) (Historical Jewish Press)


Tog, Di varhayt (1919-1922)

Digital Resource
Tog, Di varhayt (1919-1922) (Historical Jewish Press)


Tog-Morgen Zshurnal (1953-1971)


Varhayt (1906-1919)

Digital Resource
Varhayt (1906-1919) (Historical Jewish Press)


Yidishes tageblatt (Jewish Daily News) (1906-1928)

Digital Resource
Yidishes tageblatt (Jewish Daily News) (1906-1923) (Historical Jewish Press)

1898 photograph of newspaper buidling located next to above-ground subway station.
                      New York Staats Zeitung Building