Di Varhayt

Last updated
Di Varhayt
Political alignment Communist
Language Yiddish
Headquarters Petrograd
CountryRussia

Di Varhayt (The Truth) was a Yiddish Communist newspaper published from Petrograd, Russia, published by Evkom belonging to the People's Commissariat for Nationalities. The first issue was published on March 8, 1918. Di Varhayt was the first Yiddish communist newspaper in the world. It was however closed down after a brief existence, as the People's Commissariat was shifted to the new capital Moscow and due to the lack of Yiddish journalists in Petrograd. The paper was later restarted as Der Emes . [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Israel Joshua Singer</span> Polish-Jewish novelist

Israel Joshua Singer was a Polish-Jewish novelist who wrote in Yiddish.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jacob Gordin</span> American dramatist

Jacob Michailovitch Gordin was a Russian-American playwright active in the early years of Yiddish theater. He is known for introducing realism and naturalism into Yiddish theater.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Proletkult</span> Soviet cultural and artistic organization

Proletkult, a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura", was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917. This organization, a federation of local cultural societies and avant-garde artists, was most prominent in the visual, literary, and dramatic fields. Proletkult aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working-class aesthetic, which drew its inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in backward, agrarian Russia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bella Rosenfeld</span> Belarusian-born Yiddish writer, wife of painter Marc Chagall

Bella Rosenfeld Chagall was a Jewish Russian writer born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, nowadays Belarus, and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. She was the subject of many of Chagall's paintings including Bella au col blanc in 1917, and appears posthumously in Bouquet près de la fenêtre, painted in 1959–1960.

Semyon (Shimen) Markovich Dimanshtein was a Soviet state official, publisher, and leading theorist of national issues in the USSR, and one of the founders of the Soviet Oriental studies. He was considered by the Soviet government to be a representative of Soviet Jews.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mykola Skrypnyk</span> Ukraninan revolutionary and Soviet politician

Mykola Oleksiiovych Skrypnyk, was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and later led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to recant his policies in a show trial. He also was the Head of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat, equivalent to the modern-day position of Prime Minister of Ukraine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Isaac Steinberg</span> Russian anarchist (1888–1957)

Isaac Nachman Steinberg was a lawyer, Socialist Revolutionary, politician, a leader of the Jewish Territorialist movement and writer in Soviet Russia and in exile.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nahum Gergel</span> Jewish politician (1887–1931)

Nahum Gergel was a Jewish rights activist, humanitarian, sociologist, and author in Yiddish. Nahum Gergel is best known for his thorough statistical studies of anti-Jewish atrocities (pogroms) that took place in Ukraine in 1918–1921.

Morgen Freiheit was a New York City-based daily Yiddish language newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party, USA, founded by Moissaye Olgin in 1922. After the end of World War II the paper's pro-Israel views brought it into disfavor with the Communist Party and its editor Paul Novick was expelled from the organization. The paper closed in 1988.

<i>Folkstsaytung</i> Yiddish-language daily newspaper in Warsaw, Poland (1921-1943)

The Folkstsaytung was a Yiddish language daily newspaper which served as the official organ of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland. Folkstsaytung was published in Warsaw, Second Polish Republic. It began publication in 1921 and officially lasted until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. Thereafter it continued on as an illegal underground newspaper until 1943. Its first editors were Victor Alter and Henrik Erlich. In 1927 it was renamed Naye Folkstsaytung. When Ehrlich and Alter became preoccupied with their leadership responsibilities in the Bund, Leyvik Hodes took over editorial responsibility. <Leyvik Hodes: Biografye un shrift. Ed. Sofia Dubnov-Erlich. New York: Farlag undzer tsayt, 1962> It began to be published again after World War II but in 1948 it was taken over by Communist authorities and disbanded.

During the nine decades since its establishment in 1919, the Communist Party USA produced or inspired a vast array of newspapers and magazines in at least 25 different languages. This list of the Non-English press of the Communist Party USA provides basic information on each title, along with links to pages dealing with specific publications in greater depth.

Der Tog was a Yiddish-language daily newspaper published in New York City from 1914 until 1971. The offices of Der Tog were located on the Lower East Side, at 185 and 187 East Broadway.

Saul M. Ginsburg was a Jewish-Belarusian American author, editor, and historian of Russian Jewry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">General Jewish Labour Bund</span> 1897–1921 Jewish socialist party in Russia

The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia, generally called The Bund or the Jewish Labour Bund, was a secular Jewish socialist party initially formed in the Russian Empire and active between 1897 and 1920. In 1917 the Bund organizations in Poland seceded from the Russian Bund and created a new Polish General Jewish Labour Bund which continued to operate in Poland in the years between the two world wars. The majority faction of the Russian Bund was dissolved in 1921 and incorporated into the Communist Party. Other remnants of the Bund endured in various countries. A member of the Bund was called a Bundist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nikolai Antipov</span> Soviet politician

Nikolai Kirillovich Antipov was a Soviet politician. He was appointed Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and elected member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1924–1937) and candidate member of the Orgburo. He was executed during the Great Purge and rehabilitated posthumously.

<i>Fraye Arbeter Shtime</i> Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper published in New York City, 1890–1977

Freie Arbeiter Stimme was a Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper published from New York City's Lower East Side between 1890 and 1977. It was among the world's longest running anarchist journals, and the primary organ of the Jewish anarchist movement in the United States; at the time that it ceased publication it was the world's oldest Yiddish newspaper. Historian of anarchism Paul Avrich described the paper as playing a vital role in Jewish–American labor history and upholding a high literary standard, having published the most lauded writers and poets in Yiddish radicalism. The paper's editors were major figures in the Jewish–American anarchist movement: David Edelstadt, Saul Yanovsky, Joseph Cohen, Hillel Solotaroff, Roman Lewis, and Moshe Katz.

Di komunistishe velt was a Yiddish language journal published biweekly from Moscow 1919–1920. It was an organ of the Jewish Commissariat. The journal was published The first issue of Di komunistishe velt was published on 1 May 1919 by Samuel (Shmuel) Agurskii - a former anarchist from the United States having joined the Bolsheviks.

Dmitry Ilyich Leshchenko was a Russian revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, professor and one of the founders and first organizers of Soviet Cinema and first head of the All-Russian Photo and Cinematographic Department of the People's Commissariat for Education.

Leonid Nikolaevich Stark was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet diplomat and editor.

The Central Bureau of the Lithuanian Sections of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (Lithuanian: RKP(b) Lietuvių sekcijų Centro Biuras) was an organization within the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) that coordinated groups of Lithuanian party members across Soviet Russia in 1917–1921. The Central Bureau played a key role in the formation of the communist movement in Lithuania in the lead-up to the establishment of the first Lithuanian Soviet Republic in 1918, as there was no communist movement there at the time of the October Revolution. The main leaders of the Central Bureau of the Lithuanian Sections were Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas and Zigmas Aleksa-Angarietis, the founding duo of Lithuanian Bolshevism. Five conferences of Lithuanian Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia were held between 1918 and 1921. The Central Bureau of the Lithuanian Sections functioned under the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

References

  1. Estraikh, Gennady. The Yiddish-Language Communist Press, in Frankel, Jonathan (ed.), Studies in Contemporary Jewry. Vol. 20, Dark Times, Dire Decisions : Jews and Communism. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2005. p. 63