Das Vort Explained

Das Vort
Language:Yiddish
Type:daily newspaper
Publishing Country:Lithuania
Political:Labour Zionism
Headquarters:Kaunas

Das Vort (דאס וואָרט 'The Word') was a Yiddish-language daily newspaper published from Kaunas, Lithuania. Das Vort was an organ of the Labour Zionist Poalei Zion Right.[1] It was first published in 1934.[2] [3]

The National Library of Israel has 1,684 scanned and searchable issues of the newspaper from 1934 to 1940 available to read online in its Historical Jewish Press collection.[4]

Notes and References

  1. [Labour and Socialist International]
  2. Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities. Lithuania. Kaunas
  3. Yiddish Literary Life in Interwar Kaunas”, Akvile Grigoraviciute, page 698, from Jewish Historical Quarterly issue 04/2014, pages 689-704
  4. Dos vort