''Der proletarisher gedank'' ( yi, דער פראלעטארישער געדאנק, 'The Proletarian Thought') was a journal published in
Soviet Russia
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
1919–1927.
[ It was the organ of the Central Committee of the ]Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion)
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(later renamed the Jewish Communist Labour Party (Poalei Zion)). It was initially published in Russian language
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under the title ''Evreiskaya proletarskaya mysl'' (russian: Еврейская пролетарская мысль, 'Jewish Proletarian Thought') until 1926, before becoming a Yiddish language
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publication in 1926. ''Evreiskaya proletarskaya mysl'' was initially issued from Kiev
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, then shifting to Kharkov
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. The journal was printed at the Molot print shop in Moscow. The newspaper was one of a handful of non-communist Jewish newspapers allowed to be published legally, albeit under supervision of a censor.
The newspaper persistently challenged the official Communist International
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line on the Palestine question.
The fiftieth issue of ''Der proletarisher gedank'' was published in November 1927 before the journal ceased its publication.
References
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Yiddish socialist newspapers
Russian-language newspapers
Newspapers published in the Soviet Union
Newspapers established in 1919
Publications disestablished in 1927
Magazines published in Moscow
Mass media in Kyiv
Mass media in Kharkiv
Labor Zionism
Secular Jewish culture in Europe
Yiddish culture in Ukraine
Yiddish culture in Russia
Zionism in Russia
Zionism in Ukraine