Di komunistishe velt (Yiddish: די קאָמוניסטישע וועלט, 'The Communist World') was a Yiddish language journal published biweekly from Moscow 1919–1920.[1][2][3][4] It was an organ of the Jewish Commissariat.[2][4] The journal was published [5] The first issue of Di komunistishe velt was published on 1 May 1919 by Samuel (Shmuel) Agurskii - a former anarchist from the United States having joined the Bolsheviks.[5]
As publication of Der Emes was interrupted in the midst of the Russian Civil War, Di komunistishe velt came to function as the central party organ in Yiddish.[1][6] The Jewish Commissariat recruited a non-Bolshevik, Daniel Charney, for the position as editor-in-chief of Di komunistishe velt.[6]
Debates on Yiddish language reform played out in the issues of Di komunistishe velt.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b David Benjamin Schneer (2001). A Revolution in the Making: Yiddish and the Creation of a Soviet Jewish Culture. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 282, 311.
- ^ a b Joseph Sherman; Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh; Modern Humanities Research Association (2007). David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism. MHRA. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-905981-12-0.
- ^ Zvi Gitelman (8 March 2015). Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930. Princeton University Press. pp. 533–. ISBN 978-1-4008-6913-8.
- ^ a b Gennady Estraikh (21 March 2005). In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism. Syracuse University Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-8156-3052-4.
- ^ a b Todd M. Endelman; Zvi Gitelman; Deborah Dash Moore (7 April 2020). The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8: Crisis and Creativity Between World Wars, 1918-1939. Yale University Press. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-300-13552-7.
- ^ a b Gennady Estraikh (2 December 2017). Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish. Taylor & Francis. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-1-351-19821-9.
- ^ David Shneer (13 February 2004). Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-521-82630-3.