Oktjabr (newspaper)

Der Shtern , later Oktjabr , was a Yiddish-language newspaper in the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1941.

The first edition appeared in Smolensk on November 7, 1918 . Due to the Russian Civil War , it appeared in Minsk , Vilnius or Vitebsk over the next three years . In 1921 the newspaper Der Weker from Minsk was added. In 1924 it was renamed Oktjabr . In June 1941 it had to stop its publication after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht .

Oktyabr was the longest-running Yiddish newspaper in the Soviet Union.

literature

• David Shneer: Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930 , Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-82630-3 , pp. 247, 249 online
• Gennady Estraikh: 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, pp. 64.