Der komunistisher veg (Yiddish: דער קאמוניסטישער וועג, 'The Communist Path') was a Yiddish-language newspaper published from the Soviet city of Gomel, founded in 1920.[1][2] It was a weekly paper.[1][3] Der komunistisher veg was the organ of the Gomel Governorate Bureau of the Jewish Section of the Communist Party and the Gomel Governorate Committee.[1] M. Kiper was the editor of the newspaper.[2]

Der komunistisher veg
EditorM. Kiper
Founded1920 (1920)
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguageYiddish language
HeadquartersGomel
Circulation2,000

Published in the midst of the Russian Civil War, times of great scarcity of printing paper, Der komunistisher veg was printed on grey wrapping paper.[4] Between the 9th (April 1920) and 10th (March 1921) congresses of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks), 182 issues of Der komunistisher veg were published. It had a circulation of around 2,000.[5]

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  1. ^ a b c National Library of Russia. Yiddish Newspapers (in the Latin alphabet) Archived 14 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b Weltkampf, eds. 38-43. Aussenstelle Frankfurta M. der Hohen Schule. 1941. p. 56.
  3. ^ Sovetish geĭmland, Eds. 9-12. Soṿetski Pisaṭel. 1984. p. 162.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.