Di komunistishe velt (Yiddish: די קאָמוניסטישע וועלט, 'The Communist World') was a Yiddish language journal published biweekly from Moscow 1919–1920. It was an organ of the Jewish Commissariat. The journal was published The first issue of Di komunistishe velt was published on 1 May 1919 by Samuel (Shmuel) Agurskii [ru] - a former anarchist from the United States having joined the Bolsheviks.
As publication of Der Emes was interrupted in the midst of the Russian Civil War, Di komunistishe velt came to function as the central party organ in Yiddish. The Jewish Commissariat recruited a non-Bolshevik, Daniel Charney, for the position as editor-in-chief of Di komunistishe velt.
Debates on Yiddish language reform played out in the issues of Di komunistishe velt.
References
- ^ David Benjamin Schneer (2001). A Revolution in the Making: Yiddish and the Creation of a Soviet Jewish Culture. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 282, 311.
- ^ Joseph Sherman; Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh; Modern Humanities Research Association (2007). David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism. MHRA. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-905981-12-0.
- Zvi Gitelman (8 March 2015). Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930. Princeton University Press. pp. 533–. ISBN 978-1-4008-6913-8.
- ^ Gennady Estraikh (21 March 2005). In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism. Syracuse University Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-8156-3052-4.
- ^ Todd M. Endelman; Zvi Gitelman; Deborah Dash Moore (7 April 2020). The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8: Crisis and Creativity Between World Wars, 1918-1939. Yale University Press. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-300-13552-7.
- ^ Gennady Estraikh (2 December 2017). Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish. Taylor & Francis. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-1-351-19821-9.
- David Shneer (13 February 2004). Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-521-82630-3.