Folkstsaytung

For the paper in Ukraine, see Folkstsaytung (Kyiv).
Folkstsaytung
Typedaily newspaper
Founded1921
Political alignmentGeneral Jewish Labour Bund
LanguageYiddish
Ceased publication1939
CountryPoland
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The Folkstsaytung (Yiddish: פֿאָלקסצייטונג, 'People's Newspaper') was a Yiddish language daily newspaper which served as the official organ of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland. Folkstsaytung was published in Warsaw, Second Polish Republic.[1] It began publication in 1921 and officially lasted until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. Thereafter it continued on as an illegal underground newspaper until 1943. Its first editors were Victor Alter and Henrik Erlich. In 1927 it was renamed Naye Folkstsaytung ("New People's Paper").[2] When Ehrlich and Alter became preoccupied with their leadership responsibilities in the Bund, Leyvik Hodes took over editorial responsibility. <Leyvik Hodes: Biografye un shrift. Ed. Sofia Dubnov-Erlich. New York: Farlag undzer tsayt, 1962> It began to be published again after World War II but in 1948 it was taken over by Communist authorities and disbanded.[3]

The newspaper reflected the Jewish secular socialist ideology of the Bund and spoke up for rights of workers, reported on Polish politics and Sejm debates, included articles on cultural and scientific topics, as well as literary works of both Jewish and non-Jewish authors.[2] The newspaper had a women's page Froyen-Vinkl, which was edited by Dina Blond.[4] A young people's edition was published under the title "Kleine Folkststaytung", under the editorship of Leyvik Hodes, who also founded the youth arm of the Bund, SKIF (Jewish Socialist Children's Federation. <Leyvik Hodes: Biografye un shrift. Ed. Sofia Dubnov-Erlich. New York: Farlag undzer tsayt, 1962>

  1. ^ Labour and Socialist International. The Socialist Press - The press of the parties affiliated to the Labour and Socialist International. Series 4 - No. 2. Brussels, August 1939. p. 56
  2. ^ a b Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, "Here and Now: The Vision of the Jewish Labor Bund in Interwar Poland", "YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | Here and Now: The Vision of the Jewish Labor Bund in Interwar Poland". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
  3. ^ Hershel Edelheit, "History of the Holocaust: a handbook and dictionary", Westview Press, 1994, pg. 377, [1]
  4. ^ "Dina Blond".