Der Yid
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Der Yid is a New York
based Yiddish language
weekly newspaper
. The newspaper is published by Satmar
Hasidim
, but is widely read within the broader Haredi
community. It uses a Yiddish dialect common to Satmar Chasidim as opposed to "YIVO
Yiddish" which is standard in secular and academic circles.
In 1955, during a Satmar protest at Manhattan Center against the establishment of an Israeli night club in Jerusalem, The Krasna Rav, Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein publicly tore up a copy of The Morning Journal as a sign of disapproval of its pro-zionist stance, to which Dr. Rosmarin responded with applause. This prompted the sale of Der Yid to activist leaders of the Satmar community, including Sender Deutsch.
The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum
was the paper's guiding voice, firmly establishing Der Yid as an ultra-orthodox and anti-zionist 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 also commonly held on Yom Kippur.
In 1972, the paper was revamped by Rabbi Chaim Moshe Stauber into a weekly newspaper carrying world news.
It is currently owned by the supporters of Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum in the current dispute over the succession to the Satmarer leadership. Der Yid which is sold all over the world where Haredi Jews reside has a weekly circulation of 75,000, the largest readership of all yiddish weeklies.
New York City
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based Yiddish language
Yiddish language
Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
weekly newspaper
Weekly newspaper
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. The newspaper is published by Satmar
Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)
Satmar is a Hasidic movement comprising mostly Hungarian and Romanian Hasidic Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants. It was founded and led by the late Hungarian-born Grand Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum , who was the rabbi of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary...
Hasidim
Hasidic Judaism
Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...
, but is widely read within the broader Haredi
Haredi Judaism
Haredi or Charedi/Chareidi Judaism is the most conservative form of Orthodox Judaism, often referred to as ultra-Orthodox. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi ....
community. It uses a Yiddish dialect common to Satmar Chasidim as opposed to "YIVO
YIVO
YIVO, , established in 1925 in Wilno, Poland as the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut , or Yiddish Scientific Institute, is a source for orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to the Yiddish language...
Yiddish" which is standard in secular and academic circles.
History
Der Yid was founded by Dr. Aaron Rosmarin as a fortnightly paper. He was formerly an editor of the Yiddish newspaper Der Morgn-Zhurnal ("The Morning Journal", pronounced "morgin zhurnal"). After the paper was bought out 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 and so he decided to start his own newspaper. Dr. Rosmarin was religiously observant and he used to run columns on the biography of rabbis and Jewish custom during his employment with The Morning Journal. Thus, under his influence Der Yid was considered more amenable to religion 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 an Israeli night club in Jerusalem, The Krasna Rav, Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein publicly tore up a copy of The Morning Journal as a sign of disapproval of its pro-zionist stance, to which Dr. Rosmarin responded with applause. This prompted the sale of Der Yid to activist leaders of the Satmar community, including Sender Deutsch.
The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum
Joel Teitelbaum
Joel Teitelbaum, known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav , was a prominent Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar. He was probably the best known Haredi opponent of all forms of modern political Zionism...
was the paper's guiding voice, firmly establishing Der Yid as an ultra-orthodox and anti-zionist 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 also commonly held on Yom Kippur.
In 1972, the paper was revamped by Rabbi Chaim Moshe Stauber into a weekly newspaper carrying world news.
It is currently owned by the supporters of Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum in the current dispute over the succession to the Satmarer leadership. Der Yid which is sold all over the world where Haredi Jews reside has a weekly circulation of 75,000, the largest readership of all yiddish weeklies.