Komunistishe shtime

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Komunistishe shtimeFounded| 1919

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Political alignment| Jewish sections of the Odessa City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Language| Yiddish
Ceased publication| 1921
Headquarters| Odessa
Country| Soviet Union

* Media of the Soviet Union

Di komunistishe shtime ('The Communist Voice') was a Yiddish language newspaper published from Odessa between 1919 and 1921.[1] Its frequency of publishing was irregular, alternating between daily and weekly.[2][3][4] It was founded in early 1919 as the organ of the Odessa Committee of the Komfarband (Jewish Communist Union). Later it became the organ of the Jewish Section of the Odessa City Committee of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine.[1][5] Published in the midst of the Russian Civil War, times of great scarcity of printing paper, Komunistishe shtime was printed on old postal paper.[6]

During its initial phase Komunistishe shtime was edited by S. Epstein and A. Chemerinsky. Later the editing was managed by a collective team.[1] As of 1921 it had a circulation of around 800.[3] Komunistishe shtime was closed down in 1921. It was one of the publications that didn't survive the new policy imposed by the Sovnarkom in 1921 that newspapers had to be self-financing.[3] 18 issues of Komunistishe shtime are kept at the National Library of Russia.[5]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Weltkampf. Aussenstelle Frankfurta M. der Hohen Schule. 1941. p. 56.
2. ^ Dorit Sallis; Marek Web (1996). Jewish Documentary Sources in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: A Preliminary List. Jewish Theological Seminary of America. p. 118.
3. ^ a b c David Shneer (13 February 2004). Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. Cambridge University Press. p. 249\. ISBN 978-0-521-82630-3.
4. ^ L'Internationale communiste: organe du Comité exécutif de l'Internationale communiste, eds. 9-12. Smolny. 1920. p. 1352.
5. ^ a b National Library of Russia. Yiddish Newspapers (in the Latin alphabet) Archived 2017-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
6. ^ Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry The Hebrew University Jonathan Frankel Tamara and Saveli Grinberg Professor of Russian Studies, Jerusalem (Emeritus) (22 April 2005). Dark Times, Dire Decisions : Jews and Communism: Jews and Communism. Oxford University Press. p. 63\. ISBN 978-0-19-534613-8.