Der Poylisher Yidl
Founded | 25 July 1884 |
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Political alignment | UK |
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The Der Poylisher Yidl (
The newspaper ceased publication after less than a year, due to ideological differences. Winchevsky, who was staunchly anti-religious, left because Rabbinowitch accepted an advertisement from
The newspaper struggled to gain traction and published a total of 16 issues.[1] It was quickly overtaken by the Arbeter Fraynd. The Jewish scene in London in general suffered from factionalism. The prevalence of anarchists meant Russia was not interested in supporting them. Most radical Jews ended up in New York City, including the paper's founder Morris Winchevsky.[5]
The paper claimed to "treat the Jew... as a man... as a Jew... as a worker" and listed four kinds of Jews: "The 'indifferent' care only about themselves; 'assimilationists' consider Jewish separateness to be the root of Jewish troubles; 'nationalists' blame the Jews' homelessness for their sufferings; 'socialists' consider the Jewish problem to be part of the general social problem, not one apart".[2]
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References
- ^ a b Fishman, William J. (1985). Morris Winchevsky's London Yiddish Newspaper, 100 Years in Retrospect (PDF). Oxford, UK: Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. p. 4.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-5261-0746-6.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8143-4356-2.
- ^ "המדור לעיתונות יידיש" (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2018-07-30.
- ISBN 978-1-4411-8021-6.