The Times
| The Times
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| description | Daily or weekly newspaper |
| language | Yiddish |
| First edition | 1913 |
| Frequency of publication | initially daily, then weekly |
| Editor-in-chief | Morris Myer |
| editor | Morris Myer |
Die Zeit (The Times) was a daily newspaper in Yiddish from London .
The paper was founded and published in 1913 by the Romanian immigrant Morris Myer . In the first few years the newspaper mainly represented the Jewish working class, later Myer increasingly gave it a Zionist focus, particularly supporting the Poale Zion movement . In the interwar period, the paper appeared less politically determined and also published religious articles.
After the editor's death in 1944, Die Zeit was continued by his son, Harry Myer (1903–1974), until the company closed in 1950, towards the end as a weekly newspaper.
Apart from brief competition from a second Yiddish newspaper in the early 1920s ( Di Express ), Die Zeit was the only Yiddish-language daily newspaper in Great Britain.
Web links
- Moshe Rosetti: Zeit, Die , Jewish Virtual Library (first published in Encyclopaedia Judaica , 2008), accessed August 7, 2015