Awake!
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Awake! is an illustrated religious magazine published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. It is considered to be a companion magazine of The Watchtower, and is distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses. The Watch Tower Society reports printing in more than 269 languages & a worldwide circulation of more than 33.2 million copies per issue.
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- Awake!
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- Awake!-no5-2017.jpg
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- 150px
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- Cover of Awake! (No. 5, 2017)
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- Annual
- Magazine.circulation
- more than 33,200,000
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- Religious
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- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Magazine.publisher
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
- Magazine.firstdate
- October 1, 1919 (as The Golden Age)
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- United States
- Magazine.based
- Warwick, New York, U.S.
- Magazine.language
- more than 269 languages
- Magazine.issn
- 0005-237X
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- www.jw.org/en/library/magazines
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- 1919-00-00
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Awake! is an illustrated religious magazine published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. It is considered to be a companion magazine of The Watchtower, and is distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses. The Watch Tower Society reports printing in more than 269 languages & a worldwide circulation of more than 33.2 million copies per issue.
==History== thumb|The November 21, 1934 edition of The Golden Age The magazine was originally published bimonthly from October 1, 1919, under the title The Golden Age. It was founded for use in the Bible Students' new door-to-door ministry, though the founder of the movement, Charles Taze Russell, had indicated in his will that the Watch Tower Society would not publish any periodicals other than The Watch Tower. Clayton J. Woodworth was editor of the magazine, and later went on to serve on the boards of several corporations of Jehovah's Witnesses. On October 6, 1937, the magazine was renamed Consolation and continued to be published biweekly until July 31, 1946.