''Di Tsayt'' ( yi, די צײט, 'The Time', also transliterated in the Germanized fashion as ''Die Zeit'') was a

Yiddish language Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

daily newspaper published in New York City, United States 1920-1922.
Divre ha-Ḳongres ha-ʻolami ha-aḥad-ʻaśar le-madaʻe ha-Yahadut: Yerushalayim, 3-10 be-Tamuz, 753, 22-29 be-Yuni, 1993
', Vol. 2, Part 3. ha-Igud ha-ʻolami le-madaʻe ha-Yahadut, 1994. p. 118Mendelsohn, Ezra, and Richard I. Cohen.
Art and Its Uses: The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society
'. New York: Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, 1990. pp. 289, 304 ''Di Tsayt'' was a national organ of the

Labor Zionist Labor Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת סוֹצְיָאלִיסְטִית, ) or socialist Zionism ( he, תְּנוּעָת הָעַבוֹדָה, label=none, translit=Tnuʽat haʽavoda) refers to the left-wing, socialist variation of Zionism. ...

Poale Zion Poale Zion (also spelled Poalei Tziyon or Poaley Syjon, meaning "Workers of Zion") was a movement of Marxist–Zionist Jewish workers founded in various cities of Poland, Europe and the Russian Empire in about the turn of the 20th century after ...

movement in the United States.Rojanski, Rachel.
The rise and fall of Die Zeit (Di tsayt)*: The fate of an encounter between culture and politics
' It was published by the Poale Zion Publishing Association. The playwright

David Pinski David Pinski (Yiddish: דוד פּינסקי; April 5, 1872 – August 11, 1959) was a Yiddish language writer, probably best known as a playwright. At a time when Eastern Europe was only beginning to experience the industrial revolution, Pinsk ...

was the editor of ''Di Tsayt''.

Founding

''Di Tsayt'' was founded on the initiative of

Nachman Syrkin , birth_date = , birth_place = Mogilev, Russian Empire (now Belarus) , death_date = , death_place = New York City, U.S. , spouse = Bassya Syrkin (née Osnos) , partner = , party = , ...

and other champions of the Poale Zion.Raider, Mark A.
The Emergence of American Zionism
'. New York: New York University Press, 1998. p. 47 To launch a daily newspaper of its own was quite an undertaking for the Poale Zion movement. Shares were sold amongst sympathizers in different areas of the United States.

Golda Meir Golda Meir, ; ar, جولدا مائير, Jūldā Māʾīr., group=nb (born Golda Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician, teacher, and ''kibbutznikit'' who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1 ...

participated in the campaign to sell shares for the founding of ''Di Tsayt''.

Profile

The first issue of ''Di Tsayt'' was published on August 29, 1920. The newspaper was published parallel to the existing Poale Zion weekly, ''Der Yiddisher Kempfer''. Whilst ''Der Yiddisher Kempfer'' retained the role as the ideological-political organ of the movement, ''Di Tsayt'' focused more on issues of nurturing Jewish culture.

Closure

The publication attracted a number of talented Yiddish writers, but could not position itself in the competition with the main established Yiddish newspapers of the city. The newspaper suffered from financial difficulties for some time.Szajkowski, Zosa.
Jews, Wars, and Communism
'. New York: Ktav Pub. House, 1972. p. 183 In the end the newspaper went bankrupt. The publication was closed down on April 26, 1922. The closure of ''Di Tsayt'' resulted in a significant loss of prestige and demoralized the Poale Zion movement in the United States. Reinharz, Shulamit.
American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise
'. Waltham, Mass: Brandeis Univ. Press, 2004. p. 116

References

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