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- ↑ Note: Its title followed the rule of the naming of the Communist press in the Soviet Union: the central CPSU newspaper was called Truth ( Pravda ), and the lower-level Communist organizations (of cities, etc.) followed the "party line" in this respect.
- 1 2 National Library of Russia. Yiddish Newspapers (in the Latin alphabet)
- ↑ Redlich (19 December 2013). War, the Holocaust and Stalinism. Routledge. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-134-36710-8.
- ↑ Arie Bar (1980). The Jewish Press that was: Accounts, Evaluations, and Memories of Jewish Papers in Pre-Holocaust Europe. World Federation of Jewish Journalists. p. 291.
- ↑ Poland. Ministerstwo poczt i telegrafów, Vol. 16-17 (1935). Dziennik urzędowy Ministerstwa poczt i telegrafów. p. 504.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ WorldCat. Sṭalindorfer emes
- ↑ Jewish Social Studies. Conference on Jewish Social Studies. 1947. p. 44.
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