Der shtern (Kharkov) explained

Der shtern
Foundation:	May 1925
Political:	Communist
Language:	Yiddish language
Ceased Publication:	1941
Headquarters:	Kharkov
Circulation:	12,000

Der shtern (Yiddish: דער שטערן, 'The Star') was a Yiddish language daily newspaper published from Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR between 1925 and 1941.^{[1] [2]} It was an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine and the All-Ukrainian Council of Trade Unions.^{[3] [4]} M. Levitan served as editor in chief of the newspaper.^[3]

Der shtern replaced Komunistishe fon as the main Yiddish newspaper in Soviet Ukraine.^[5] The first issue of Der shtern was published in May 1925.^[6] In its initial phase Der shtern was the largest Yiddish newspaper in the Soviet Union, as well. It was printed around 12,000 copies, a larger number than that of the Moscow-based Der emes and the Minsk-based Oktyabr combined.^{[7] [8]}

As of January 1928, Der Shtern had a circulation of 9,500 copies, by January 1929 12,600 and by January 1930 the publication had a circulation of 16,700 copies.^[9] By the late 1930s Der shtern was one of very few remaining Yiddish newspapers in the Soviet Union.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Book: Anna Shternshis. Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. registration. 2006. Indiana University Press. 0-253-34726-2. 219.
2. Book: The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. 31 August 2011. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-82597-9. 336. Judith R. Baskin. Judith Reesa Baskin. Judith R. Baskin.
3. National Library of Russia. Yiddish Newspapers (in the Latin alphabet)
4. Book: Paul Robert Magocsi. History of Ukraine - 2nd, Revised Edition: The Land and Its Peoples. 18 June 2010. University of Toronto Press. 978-1-4426-9879-6. 506.
5. Book: Elissa Bemporad. Stanford University. Dept. of History. Red star on the Jewish street: the reshaping of Jewish life in Soviet Minsk, 1917-1939. 2006. Stanford University. 89.
6. Book: David Shneer. Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. 13 February 2004. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-82630-3. 94.
7. Book: Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh. In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance With Communism. 2005. Syracuse University Press. 978-0-8156-3052-4. 121.
8. Book: Bernard Wasserstein

   . Bernard Wasserstein. Bernard Wasserstein. On The Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War. 3 May 2012. Profile Books. 978-1-84765-345-1. 264.

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