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Flugblat

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Type
  
Daily

Founded
  
October 13, 1915

Ceased publication
  
January, 1916

Founder(s)
  
Jacob Wygodzki

Language
  
Yiddish

Headquarters
  
Vilna

Flugblat (Yiddish: פלוג בלאט‎, 'Leaflet') was a Yiddish-language daily newspaper, published from Vilna between October 13, 1915 and January, 1916 (i.e. during the German occupation of the city). Flugblat was the first Yiddish newspaper to appear in Vilna following the July 1915 Russian ban on non-Cyrillic press. The issues of Flugblat consisted of one or two pages, containing translations of official telegram wires from the German military for the Eastern Front and decrees from the German authorities to the local population.

The newspaper was shut down when Feivel Margolin, a known journalist, obtained an exclusive permit to print a new daily Yiddish newspaper for the whole Ober Ost, Letze nayes. In total one hundred issues of Flugblat had been printed.

References

Flugblat Wikipedia