Vochenblatt

Keneder yiddishe vochenblatt
EditorJoshua Gershman
Founded1926 (1926)
Political alignmentCommunist, socialist
LanguageYiddish, English
Ceased publication1979 (1979)
HeadquartersToronto
CountryCanada
Sister newspapersCanadian Jewish Outlook

The Keneder yiddishe vochenblatt (Yiddish: קענעדער ײִדישער ואָכנבּלאַט, lit. 'Canadian Jewish Weekly'), known as the Vochenblatt, was a Yiddish-language communist newspaper in Canada, published from Toronto from 1926 to 1979.[1][2] Vochenblatt was one of the major communist Yiddish newspapers in the world during the Cold War.[2] The newspaper was edited by Joshua Gershman until his death in 1978.[3]

  1. ^ Paris, Erna (1980). Jews, an Account of Their Experience in Canada. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. p. 155. ISBN 9780771595745.
  2. ^ a b Estrajch, G. (2008). Yiddish in the Cold War. London: Legenda. pp. 9, 23. ISBN 9781906540050.
  3. ^ Forte, Nick G. (1992). A Guide to the Collections of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario. Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario. p. 273. ISBN 9780919045583.