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Folks-Sztyme ('People's Voice', Yiddish: פֿאָלקס שטימע, Polish: Głos Ludu) was a Jewish Polish magazine in Polish and Yiddish in Communist Poland. There was already an homonymous newspaper in Łódź in 1939.[1]

According to Henri Minczeles, the paper began to be published in 1946, from Łódź[2], but it moved to Warsaw after a few years.[1] In 1953, the American Jewish Yearbook noted that "The only newspaper was the Communist Folks-Sztyme. It appeared four days a week and had an illustrated weekly supplement. Yiddishe Szriften, a monthly devoted to literature and art, continued to appear under the sponsorship of the Social and Cultural Union."[3]

From 1956 onwards, it was published by the official Jewish association formed by the Communist authorities, the Sociocultural Society of Jews in Poland (SCSJP, Polish: Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce, TSKŻ).[4]

The editor from 1950 to 1968 was Hersh (Gregory) Smolar, and after 1968 successively Samuel Tenenblatt and Adam Kwaterko.[1]

Due to the declining number of Jews in Poland, the number of his readers constantly decreased and it became a weekly in 1968. Since 1991, it has been replaced by the bi-weekly Słowo Żydowskie - Dos Jidisze Wort (The Jewish Word).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d see the Fołks Sztyme article in the Polish language wikipedia
  2. ^ Minczeles, Henri. Histoire générale du Bund: un mouvement révolutionnaire juif. Paris: Editions Austral, 1995. p. 427
  3. ^ Shapiro, Leon (1953). "Poland". American Jewish Yearbook: 336–343. http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1953_11_EastEurope.pdf. Retrieved 2009-11-09. 
  4. ^ Bugajski, Janusz (2002). Political parties of Eastern Europe: a guide to politics in the post-Communist era. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 1055. ISBN 9781563246760. http://books.google.be/books?id=9gGKtLTQlUcC&pg=PA208. Retrieved 2009-11-09.