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The Birobidzhan Shtern or Birobidzhan Shtern ( Yiddish ביראָבידזשאנער שטערן, Russian Биробиджанер Штерн Birobidžaner Štern ) is a Yiddish- and Russian- language newspaper in Birobidzhan in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia . It appears twice a week with a print run of 5,000 copies.

history

The Birobidschaner Schtern was founded in 1930 for Yiddish-speaking settlers in the newly formed Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Birobidzhan in the far northeast of Russia. The initial circulation was 2,000 copies. In 1934 the newspaper became the official organ of the area administration.

From the end of 1941 the newspaper appeared in the Russian-language Birobidschanskaja swesda, and since 1945 again as a separate newspaper. As part of the Stalinist purges , some employees were arrested in the late 1940s , and the newspaper was shut down in 1949. Since 1952 it appeared again. Until the magazine Sowetisch Hejmland was founded in 1961 , the Birobidschaner Schtern was the only post-war Yiddish-language periodical published in the Soviet Union .

In the 1980s, when the newspaper was under the direction of Leonid Shkolnik , the newspaper was a major tribune of Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union, once a week with the works of Yiddish authors from across the country in its columns.

Since 1991, an ever larger part of the newspaper has appeared in Russian, as fewer and fewer Jews understand Yiddish. In 2009 it was merged with the Russian-speaking Birobidschanskaja swesda to form a newspaper.

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