Haynt

Haynt

Title page of Haynt, January 17, 1915
Type	Daily newspaper
Founder	Shmuel Yankev Yatskan
Founded	1906
Ceased publication	1939
Language	Yiddish
Country	Poland
Media of Poland List of newspapers

Haynt (Yiddish: הײַנט - "Today"; Yidishes tageblat 1906-08) was a Yiddish daily newspaper, published in Warsaw from 1906 until 1939.

History

Newspaper Yidishes tageblat (יידישעס טאגעבלאט) was founded in 1906 by Zionist Samuel Jackan, a former contributor to the Hebrew language paper Ha-Tsefirah.

In 1908 Yidishes tageblat changed its name to Haynt and quickly established itself as the premier Yiddish newspaper in the Congress Poland.^[1]

Circulation

The practice of reprinting Yiddish fiction in serialized form helped Haynt set new circulation records for Yiddish journalism. By 1913 the newspaper reached a circulation of more than 150,000 copies.^[2]

From 1908 till 1932 Haynt was a private company. In 1932 a cooperative called Alt-Nay was formed by the staff, who administered the newspaper ever since.^[3]

Contributors

• Esriel Carlebach (עזריאל קארלעבאך), also under pseudonym Levi Gotthelf (לוי גאָטהעלף).
• Boris Smolar
• Moshe Sneh
• Sholem Aleichem, in particular, the second series of the exploits of Menahem-Mendl

References

1. "Introduction" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
2. http://www.yivo.org/downloads/Warsaw.pdf Archived 2006-10-03 at the Wayback Machine.
3. "Haynt: a Tsaytung bay Yidn (Today: A Jewish Newspaper),1908-1939". www.haynt.org. Archived from the original on 2015-04-13.

External links

• Today: A Jewish Newspaper, 1908-1939 by Chaim Finkelstein
• Complete digitized run of Haynt, 1908-1939 at the Historical Jewish Press