Oktyabr (Yiddish newspaper)

Oktyabr
Founded	November 7, 1925
Political alignment	Communist Party (bolshevik) of Byelorussia
Language	Yiddish
Ceased publication	June 1941
Headquarters	Minsk
Country	Soviet Union
	Media of the Soviet Union;

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]

References[edit]

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

[Hundert2008-1] Gershon David Hundert (2008). The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Yale University Press. p. 1178. ISBN 978-0-300-11903-9.

[Schneer2001-2] David Benjamin Schneer (2001). A Revolution in the Making: Yiddish and the Creation of a Soviet Jewish Culture. University of California, Berkeley. p. 339.

[Bemporad2013-3] Elissa Bemporad (29 April 2013). Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk. Indiana University Press. pp. 61–62, 227. ISBN 978-0-253-00827-5.

[Estraikh2005-4] Gennady Estraikh (21 March 2005). In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism. Syracuse University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-8156-3052-4.

[Shneer2004a-5] David Shneer (13 February 2004). Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. Cambridge University Press. pp. 124, 247, 249. ISBN 978-0-521-82630-3.

[Ross2019-6] Steven Joseph Ross (15 December 2019). New Perspectives on Kristallnacht. Purdue University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-61249-616-0.

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