Flugblat Explained

Flugblat פלוג בלאט
Type:	Daily
Founder:	Jacob Wygodzki
Foundation:	October 13, 1915
Language:	Yiddish
Ceased Publication:	January, 1916
Headquarters:	Vilnius

Flugblat (Yiddish: פלוג בלאט, 'Leaflet') was a Yiddish-language daily newspaper published in Vilnius between October 13, 1915 and January, 1916, during the German occupation of the city.^{[1] [2]} Flugblat was the first Yiddish newspaper to appear in Vilnius following the July 1915 Russian ban on non-Cyrillic press.^[3] The issues of Flugblat consisted of one or two pages containing translations of official telegram wires from the German military for the Eastern Front and decrees from the German authorities to the local population.^{[3] [4]}

The newspaper was shut down when Feivel Margolin, a known journalist, obtained an exclusive permit to print a new daily Yiddish newspaper for the entire Ober Ost district, Letze nayes.^[4] Altogether, 100 issues of Flugblat were printed.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Marten-Finnis, Susanne. Vilna As a Centre of the Modern Jewish Press, 1840-1928: Aspirations, Challenges, and Progress. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004. p. 168
2. Yod, eds. 23–26. Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, 1987. p. 73
3. Koss, Andrew Noble World War I and the Remaking of Jewish Vilna, 1914-1918. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2010. pp. 133–134
4. Bar, Aryeh. The Jewish press that was: accounts, evaluations, and memories of Jewish papers in pre-Holocaust Europe. World Federation of Jewish Journalists, 1980. p. 227