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Di warheit (Russian Вархайт ) was a Yiddish newspaper in Petrograd in 1918. It was published by the People's Commissariat for Jewish Affairs . The first edition appeared on March 8, 1918.

From August 1st it appeared as Der Emes , from August 7th in Moscow . because the police station had moved there. The main content of the newspaper was propaganda for the new Bolshevik policy in Russia and an examination of anti-Judaism .

literature

  • 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: Oxford University Press, 2005, p 63ff.