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Aufbau (journal)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “weekly published by the german-jewish community in new york”. Today it says “periodical targeted at german-speaking jews around the globe”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “The Aufbau database”.
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Compared with the live article on 2026-08-04.
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The opening as it read in 2005

Aufbau is a weekly published by the German-Jewish community in New York, and founded in 1934.1 Hannah Arendt , Albert Einstein , Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig wrote for the weekly. v t e2

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 16445210.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “weekly published by the german-jewish community in new york”. Today it says “periodical targeted at german-speaking jews around the globe”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “The Aufbau database”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

weekly published by the german-jewish community in new york

Now

periodical targeted at german-speaking jews around the globe

Sections that no longer exist

This section existed on October 6, 2023. It is gone today. The current article has no similar heading in its place, and the article is shorter overall. So this is not a heading that got renamed, and it is not a topic that got folded into a bigger section. 1 section of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 118 characters shorter.

  • The Aufbau database
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