Der Yid

Der Yid
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Cover of Der Yid (2017), with the headline story reporting on a demonstration against Israel's compulsory military draft
Type weekly newspaper
Founded 1953
Language Yiddish
Headquarters New York City
Country United States
Circulation 20,000 (2009)
Website www.deryid.org

Der Yid (Yiddish: דער איד‎) is a New York-based Yiddish language weekly newspaper, founded in 1953. The newspaper is published by Satmar Hasidim, but is read also a little within the broader Yiddish speaking Haredi community. It uses a Yiddish dialect common to Satmar Chasidim, as opposed to "YIVO Yiddish," which is standard in secular and academic circles.

History

Der Yid was founded in 1953 by Dr. Aaron Rosmarin as a fortnightly paper. He was formerly an editor of the Yiddish newspaper Der Morgn-Zhurnal ("The Morning Journal"). After the paper was bought out in 1953 by a rival Yiddish newspaper, Der Tog ("The Day"), forming the Tog-Morgn-Zhurnal ("The Day-Morning Journal"), he was laid off from the new company. Rosmarin decided to start his own newspaper.

Religiously observant, Dr. Rosmarin had run columns on the biographies of rabbis and Jewish customs while working for The Morning Journal. Under his influence, Der Yid was considered more sympathetic to Orthodox Judaism than the other major Yiddish newspapers of the time. The first editor of Der Yid was the writer Uriel Zimmer, publisher of an anti-Zionist tract.

In 1955, during a Satmar protest at Manhattan Center against the establishment of a night club in Jerusalem, The Krasna Rav, Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein, publicly tore up a copy of Der Morgn-Zhurnal as a sign of disapproval of its pro-Zionist stance. Dr. Rosmarin responded with applause. He eventually sold Der Yid to activist leaders of the Satmar community, including Sender Deutsch.[1]

Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the Rebbe of Satmar, became the paper's guiding voice, firmly establishing Der Yid as a Haredi and anti-Zionist And Extreme newspaper. He once approved an appeal for financial contributions to the newspaper on the night of Yom Kippur, as a counterweight to pro-Zionist financial appeals that were commonly held on Yom Kippur.

In 1972, the paper was revamped by Rabbi Chaim Moshe Stauber as a weekly newspaper carrying world news.

Current form

Der Yid is currently owned by the supporters of Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum. The paper remains firmly anti-Zionist, although some changes have occurred over time. For instance, when the State of Israel is mentioned, it no longer appears in mocking quotation marks. As a matter of course, Der Yid refrains from publishing photographs of women in its pages, in keeping with Hasidic standards of tzniut. According to Tablet Magazine, as of 2018 Der Yid, which is sold in Hareidi communities throughout few places in the world, had a paid circulation of approximately 4,000.[2] The newspaper publishes a daily edition, which, according to its website, has 15,000 email subscribers.[3]

The community of Aaron Teitelbaum publishes a similar newspaper, known as Der Blatt.

References

  1. ↑ Botsina Kadisha (in Hebrew) volume 2, P. 258, memoirs by Sender Deutsch
  2. ↑ {{cite web der yid is always far right, will ignore things not matching the satmar agenda and not cover very much kind of storys. | url =http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/1567/in-the-fold | title =In the Fold | last = | first = | date = | website = | publisher = | access-date = | quote =...Der Yid, the organ of Satmar Hasidim, has a paid circulation of 20,000.}}
  3. ↑ "YidDaily.org". We are excited to present to you the daily 'Der Yid' which is distributed [to] and seen by over 15,000 readers.

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