Oktyabr (Yiddish newspaper)

Oktyabr
FoundedNovember 7, 1925 (1925-11-07)
Political alignmentCommunist Party (bolshevik) of Byelorussia
LanguageYiddish
Ceased publicationJune 1941
HeadquartersMinsk
CountrySoviet Union

Oktyabr (Yiddish: אקטיאבער, 'October'), was a Yiddish language newspaper published from Minsk 1917–1941.[1]

Oktyabr was launched on November 7, 1925, on the eighth anniversary of the October Revolution, replacing the ex-Bundist newspaper Der Veker.[2][3][4] The name of the new publication was unequivocally Bolshevik, in contrast with the Bundist legacy of Der Veker.[3][4] As of 1925 Oktyabr had a circulation of 4,139, by 1926 it stood at 6,400 and by 1927 its circulation stood at 7,150, higher than any of the Belarusian language party organs.[5] Publishing of Oktyabr continued until the German invasion of the Soviet Union.[6]

References

  1. ^ Gershon David Hundert (2008). The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Yale University Press. p. 1178. ISBN 978-0-300-11903-9.
  2. ^ David Benjamin Schneer (2001). A Revolution in the Making: Yiddish and the Creation of a Soviet Jewish Culture. University of California, Berkeley. p. 339.
  3. ^ a b Elissa Bemporad (29 April 2013). Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk. Indiana University Press. pp. 61–62, 227. ISBN 978-0-253-00827-5.
  4. ^ a b Gennady Estraikh (21 March 2005). In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism. Syracuse University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-8156-3052-4.
  5. ^ David Shneer (13 February 2004). Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. Cambridge University Press. pp. 124, 247, 249. ISBN 978-0-521-82630-3.
  6. ^ Steven Joseph Ross (15 December 2019). New Perspectives on Kristallnacht. Purdue University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-61249-616-0.