Oktyabr (Yiddish newspaper) explained

Oktyabr
Language:	Yiddish
Headquarters:	Minsk
Ceased Publication:	June 1941
Publishing Country:	Soviet Union
Political:	Communist Party (bolshevik) of Byelorussia

Oktyabr (Yiddish: אקטיאבער, 'October'), was a Yiddish language newspaper published from Minsk 1917–1941.^[1]

Oktyabr was launched on November 7, 1925, on the eighth anniversary of the October Revolution, replacing the ex-Bundist newspaper Der Veker.^{[2] [3] [4]} The name of the new publication was unequivocally Bolshevik, in contrast with the Bundist legacy of Der Veker.^{[3] [4]} As of 1925 Oktyabr had a circulation of 4,139, by 1926 it stood at 6,400 and by 1927 its circulation stood at 7,150, higher than any of the Belarusian language party organs.^[5] Publishing of Oktyabr continued until the German invasion of the Soviet Union.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Book: Gershon David Hundert. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. 2008. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-11903-9. 1178.
2. Book: David Benjamin Schneer. A Revolution in the Making: Yiddish and the Creation of a Soviet Jewish Culture. 2001. University of California, Berkeley. 339.
3. Book: Elissa Bemporad. Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk. 29 April 2013. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-00827-5. 61–62, 227.
4. Book: Gennady Estraikh. In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism. 21 March 2005. Syracuse University Press. 978-0-8156-3052-4. 105.
5. Book: David Shneer. Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. 13 February 2004. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-82630-3. 124, 247, 249.
6. Book: Steven Joseph Ross. New Perspectives on Kristallnacht. 15 December 2019. Purdue University Press. 978-1-61249-616-0. 216.