Pre-War Częstochowa Jewish Newspapers
- professional English-language translations
PRE-WAR CZĘSTOCHOWA JEWISH NEWSPAPERS
The pre-War Jewish community of Częstochowa was enriched by many Jewish publications – in Yiddish, Poland and Hebrew. They included book, magazines and, of course, newspapers.
Here, we present professional English-language translations of some of them:
The “Częstochower Cajtung” (“Częstochowa Gazette”), published from 1922 to 1939, was a Yiddish-language, political and social weekly, with a Zionist-Orthodox character.
Owned and printed by Bernard Bocian, it was initially edited by Izrael Płocker and then by Szmul Frank. Its editorial office was located at Aleja NMP 6.
It seems to have been the most enduring periodical of Jewish Częstochowa. This was probably due to its moderate political line.
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“Nasz Głos Powszechny”” (“Our Common Voice”), was a Polish-language Jewish newspaper published in 1936. It seems that there were only five issues,
Professor Jerzy Mizgalski believes that the timing of the publication may have been to somehow motivate the Częstochowa Jewish community to actively participate in the Jewish Gmina elections, due to take place on 6th August, nine days after the publication of the final issue.
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The professional English translation of this newsapaper has been made possible by the financial support of the
Wolf Rajcher z”l and Dora Rajcher z”l were both Holocaust survivors from Częstochowa.
They were prisoners in both the “Big Ghetto” and the “Small Ghetto” and, until liberation, were slave labourers in HASAG-Pelcery. Following the War, they emigrated to Melbourne Australia.
Upon the passing of both his parents, their son, Andrew Rajcher, established this charitable fund in their memory.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
Andrew Rajcher
IMPORTANT NOTICE
While the English translations are available for download, they may not, either in part or as a whole, be distributed or published without the prior written permission of Andrew Rajcher, the copyright-holder of this English-language version of this newspaper.