Die Kuranten

Title page from 5 August 1687
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The Dinstagishe un Fraytagishe Kuranten was the earliest known Yiddish-language periodical, founded by Uri Phoebus Halevi (also known as Uri Fayvesh ben Aharon ha-Levi).[1][2] It was a semi-weekly founded in Amsterdam in 1686, that was published on Tuesdays (Dinstag) and Fridays (Fraytag) and it lasted for little over one year.[3] It covered local news and news from other Jewish communities, including those as far away as India.[4][5] Issues of the paper were discovered in 1902 by the librarian David Montezinos.

Die Kuranten is considered by some as the oldest Jewish newspaper, although others consider the Spanish-language Gazeta de Amsterdam [fr] from 1672 as the oldest Jewish newspaper.[6][7] Die Kuranten was the first publication not only published by the Jews, but addressed to and for the Jewish community, unlike the Spanish-language Gazeta de Amsterdam, which was not explicitly Jewish but had a predominantly Jewish readership, first published in 1672.[8][9] The Yiddish used in Die Kuranten was notable for its lack of Hebrew-Aramaic elements and focused on news both specifically Jewish, such as the murder of a Jew in Hamburg and the fate of the Jewish community in Budapest during the war with the Ottoman Empire.[7]

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  4. ^ Kaplan, Yosef (2008). The Dutch Intersection: The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History. BRILL. pp. 214–217. ISBN 978-90-04-14996-0.
  5. ^ Liptzin, 1972, 41
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  7. ^ a b Paul, Geoffrey (1986). The Jewish press: past, present and future: Reflections on a recent symposium. Vol. 33. Jewish Quarterly. pp. 21–23.
  8. ^ Noci, Javier Díaz (5 May 2020). "Gazeta de Amsterdam: History and content analysis". Historia y Comunicación Social. 25 (1): 67–78. doi:10.5209/hics.62466. hdl:10230/44822. ISSN 1988-3056. S2CID 225894245.
  9. ^ Baron, Salo Wittmayer; Research, American Academy for Jewish (1975). ספר היובל לכבוד שלום בארון (in English and Hebrew). American Academy for Jewish Research. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-231-03911-6.