''Komunistishe fon'' ( yi, קאָמוניסטישע פֿאָן, 'Communist Banner'), also known as ''Komfon'', was a Soviet

Yiddish 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 ...

newspaper published in

Kiev Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

1919–1924. The newspaper was the result of the merger of two previously non-communist newspapers, ''

Naye tsayt ''Naye tsayt'' (נײַע צײַט, 'New Times') was a Yiddish-language newspaper published from Kiev between September 1917 and May 1919. ''Naye tsayt'' was an organ of the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party (''fareynikte'').Ėstraĭkh, G. ''In ...

'' of the

Fareynikte United Jewish Socialist Workers Party ( yi, פֿאַראײניקטע ייִדישע סאָציאַליסטישע אַרבעטער־פּאַרטיי, ''fareynikte yidishe sotsialistishe arbeter-partey'') was a political party that emerged in Russia ...

party and the ''

Folkstsaytung The ''Folkstsaytung'' ( yi, פֿאָלקסצייטונג, 'People's Newspaper') was a Yiddish language daily newspaper which served as the official organ of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland. ''Folkstsaytung'' was published in Warsaw, Sec ...

'' of the Bund party.Estraikh, Gennady. ''The Yiddish-Language Communist Press'', in Frankel, Jonathan (ed.), ''Studies in Contemporary Jewry. Vol. 20, Dark Times, Dire Decisions : Jews and Communism''. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2005. p. 64 ''Kommunistishe fon'' was the organ of the Komfarband, and later became the organ of the Main Bureau of the Jewish sections of the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine. Henekh Kazakevitch was the editor of ''Komfon''. Between the 9th (April 1920) and 10th (March 1921) Party Congresses, 268 issues of ''Komfon'' were published. It had a circulation of around 2,000 at the time of the 10th party congress. ''Komfon'' organized live newspaper readings with musical concerts. These events would attract 200-300 workers. Kazakevitch was known as a good public speaker at these events. For a period ''Komfon'' carried the supplement ''Di royte arme'' ('The Red Army'), which was the organ of the Jewish Military Section (an entity working to recruit Jews to regular units of the Red Army).Gurevitz, B., & גורביץ, ב. (1980). נסיון לארגן יחידות יהודיות נפרדות בצבא האדום בעת מלחמת האזרחים / AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH SEPARATE JEWISH UNITS IN THE RED ARMY DURING THE CIVIL WAR. Michael: On the History of the Jews in the Diaspora / מיכאל: מאסף לתולדות היהודים בתפוצות, ו, 86–101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23494032 ''Komfon'' was one of two main Soviet Yiddish publications at the time (the other being the Moscow-based ''

Der Emes ''Der Emes'' (in Yiddish: , meaning 'The Truth', from he, אמת, emeth) was a Soviet newspaper in Yiddish. A continuation of the short-lived '' Di varhayt'', ''Der Emes'' began publishing in Moscow on August 8, 1918.Kotlerman, Boris (August 5 ...

''). It was later replaced by the Kharkov-based Der ''Shtern''.

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