Eynikayt
Ejnikajt ( Yiddish אייניקײַט "unity", Cyrillic Эйникайт) was the official press organ of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the Soviet Union . From June 1942 to the end of World War II and beyond, the newspaper appeared at irregular intervals until publication in November 1948.
From June 1942, the Ejnikayt was first brought out in Kuibyshev every ten days. The editor was Schachne Epstein , the secretary of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. In July 1943 the newspaper moved to Moscow and became a weekly magazine . After the war it was published three times a week from September 1945 until its publication was stopped on November 20, 1948 by order of Josef Stalin , when he had all Jewish cultural institutions in the Soviet Union liquidated at the same time.
A total of around 700 issues of the Ejnikayt magazine appeared . Your editorial contributions came exclusively from Yiddish writers from the Soviet Union. At the height of its existence, the newspaper had a circulation of 10,000 copies.
During the Second World War, the newspaper devoted itself exclusively to the war with Germany ; Numerous reports were devoted to the crimes against Jews in the German-occupied countries, as well as the Jewish resistance against National Socialism . After the war, Ejnikajt continued to appear, with Soviet censorship regulations changing the guidelines in 1948. In the first half of 1948, in line with official Soviet policy, the magazine supported Israel in the War of Independence . However, attacks against Zionism were published after September 1948 until the magazine was dissolved .
literature
- Encyclopedia Judaica , Vol. 6, p. 1077 (Art. "Eynikeyt").