Our tsait
| Our tsait
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| description | Yiddish monthly magazine |
| language | Yiddish |
| First edition | February 1941 |
| ISSN (print) | 0042-0506 |
Our Tsait ( Yiddish אונזער צײט; German Our Time ) was a Yiddish monthly magazine of the Bundists in Poland . It appeared in Warsaw in the 1920s and was the theoretical organ of the party, in which its leaders such as Viktor Alter and Henrik Erhlikh set the theoretical objectives.
A Yiddish magazine by Russian-Jewish emigrants is being published today in the USA under the same title . For a long time, “Unser Tsait” has also acted as a publisher ( Ferlag Unser Tsait ).
The series of publications serves primarily as a mouthpiece for the Bundists; the first issue appeared in February 1941 and defined itself as the organ of the Jewish Socialist Workers' Party of Poland in exile.
At that time his main task was to bring the crimes of the Nazis against the Jewish people to the world public and to provide any help. The occasion was, among other things, the suicide of the Bundist Arthur Ziegelboim , who narrowly escaped to London and who took his own life out of desperation about the “passivity of the world”. His farewell letter was printed in "Our Tsait", which read, among other things:
"... I wish that the handful of Polish Jews, who have remained from the original population of several million, may experience the day of the liberation of a new world of freedom and the justice of true socialism ."
Other political persecutions were also a topic in the first few years, including the fate of some socialists in their cooperation with the Soviet Union such as Viktor Adler or Henryk Erlik . Among the political science theorists , the approaches of Vladimir Medem (1879–1923), the first leader and most important ideologue of the Bundists, came up.
Today the magazine is also a medium for promoting minority rights and Yiddish culture, insofar as it has survived despite Stalin's “ Stalinist cleansing ” in Eastern Europe or through the emigrants.
literature
- The Bund in Pictures, 1897–1957 . Our Tsait, New York 1958
- S. Dubnov-Erlikh, J. S. Herts et al .: Di geshikhte fun Bund: finfter band (yidd .: The history of the "Bund"; 1st volume ≈1961). Ferlag Unser Tsait, New York 1966.