The Jewish Chronicle is a London-based Jewish weekly newspaper. Founded in 1841, it is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. Its editor is Jake Wallis Simons.
Front page, 17 January 1896, showing article by Theodor Herzl (the father of political Zionism)
The Jewish Chronicle, August 17, 1900, Zionist Congress: Full Report. No. 1. In the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
The former Jewish Chronicle offices in Furnival Street, central London
Leopold Kessler (1864–1944) was an engineer, newspaper publisher and Zionist. He was instrumental in building many of the institutions that supported the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state.