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Yiddish Periodicals and Journals This is the introductory copy for this page.

Di yudishe velt

 * [The Jewish World] Saint Petersburg, Russia/Vilna, Lithuania
 * Nakhman Mayzel was an editor.

Shul un leben

 * [School and Life] (1918- ) Kiev, Ukraine
 * A pedagogical journal of the Kultur-lige in Kiev.

Bikher velt

 * [Book World] (1918-21 Kiev; 1922-Warsaw) Kiev, Ukraine/Warsaw, Poland
 * A bibliographical periodical of the Kultur-lige of Kiev and Warsaw. Co-edited by Nakman Mayzel from 1919 to 1920. After political changes in the Ukraine, reestablished in Warsaw by Nakhman Mayzel and others as part of a new Kultur-lige in March 1921.

Literarishe Bleter

 * [Literary Pages] (April 1924-June/July 1939) Warsaw, Poland
 * Weekly Yiddish literary and cultural journal founded by I. J. Singer, Perets Markish, Melech Ravitch and Nakhman Mayzel (1887-1966). Published in Warsaw by the Kultur-lige press of Warsaw. Edited by Mayzel from 1925 until it ended in 1939. Became the leading literary and cultural Yiddish journal in Poland for 15 years.

Yidishe kultur

 * [Jewish Culture] New York City, United States
 * Monthly journal of the Yidisher Kultur Farband (Yiddish Culture Association; YKUF), edited by Nakhman Mayzel until 1964.

Eynikayt

 * [Unity] (June 1942-November 1948) Moscow, USSR
 * A newspaper of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee which had a literary section. Writings emphasized anti-Nazi Jewish heroism in the Soviet Union during WWII. Began with a few issues per month and by December of 1943 developed into a weekly. Edited by Shakhne Epstein, the committee’s secretary, until his death in 1945, when the editor became G. Zhits. Featured major Yiddish writers of the Soviet Union, including Dovid Bergelson, Shmuel Halkin, Leyb Kvitko, and Itsik Fefer, all of whom served on the executive board of the paper and all of whom were arrested in 1949 and tortured for years by the Stanlinist regime for “anti-Soviet crimes.” All but Halkin, due to a heart attack he suffered after his arrest, were finally sentenced to death and secretly executed in 1952.

Eygns

 * (1918, 1920) Kiev, Ukraine
 * A journal of literary miscellany published by the Kiev Kultur-lige and edited by Dovid Bergelson.

Forverts

 * [The Forward] New York City, U.S.
 * A Yiddish daily newspaper published in New York City.

Frayhayt

 * [Freedom] New York City, U.S.
 * A communist Yiddish daily newspaper published in New York City.