Der shtern (Kharkov)

Der shtern
FoundedMay 1925
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguageYiddish language
Ceased publication1941
HeadquartersKharkov
Circulation12,000

Der shtern (Yiddish: דער שטערן, 'The Star') was a Yiddish language daily newspaper published from Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR between 1925 and 1941.[1][2] It was an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine and the All-Ukrainian Council of Trade Unions.[3][4] M. Levitan served as editor in chief of the newspaper.[3]

Der shtern replaced Komunistishe fon as the main Yiddish newspaper in Soviet Ukraine.[5] The first issue of Der shtern was published in May 1925.[6] In its initial phase Der shtern was the largest Yiddish newspaper in the Soviet Union, as well.[7] It was printed around 12,000 copies, a larger number than that of the Moscow-based Der emes and the Minsk-based Oktyabr combined.[7][8]

As of January 1928, Der Shtern had a circulation of 9,500 copies, by January 1929 12,600 and by January 1930 the publication had a circulation of 16,700 copies.[9] By the late 1930s Der shtern was one of very few remaining Yiddish newspapers in the Soviet Union.[8]

References

  1. ^ Anna Shternshis (2006). Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. Indiana University Press. p. 219. ISBN 0-253-34726-2.
  2. ^ Judith R. Baskin; Judith Reesa Baskin (31 August 2011). The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. Cambridge University Press. p. 336. ISBN 978-0-521-82597-9.
  3. ^ a b National Library of Russia. Yiddish Newspapers (in the Latin alphabet) Archived 2017-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Paul Robert Magocsi (18 June 2010). History of Ukraine - 2nd, Revised Edition: The Land and Its Peoples. University of Toronto Press. p. 506. ISBN 978-1-4426-9879-6.
  5. ^ Elissa Bemporad; Stanford University. Dept. of History (2006). Red star on the Jewish street: the reshaping of Jewish life in Soviet Minsk, 1917-1939. Stanford University. p. 89.
  6. ^ David Shneer (13 February 2004). Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. Cambridge University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-521-82630-3.
  7. ^ a b Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh (2005). In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance With Communism. Syracuse University Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-8156-3052-4.
  8. ^ a b Bernard Wasserstein (3 May 2012). On The Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War. Profile Books. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-84765-345-1.
  9. ^ ІНСТИТУТ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИХ ВІДНОСИН І ПОЛІТОЛОГІЇ НАН УКРАЇНИ - ІНСТИТУТ ІСТОРІЇ УКРАЇНИ НАН УКРАЇНИ - ЦЕНТРАЛЬНИЙ ДЕРЖАВНИЙ АРХІВ ВИЩИХ ОРГАНІВ ВЛАДИ ТА УПРАВЛІННЯ УКРАЇНИ. НІМЦІ В УКРАЇНІ 20—30-ті рр. XX ст.