Der Emes

Der Emes
FoundedAugust 7, 1918
Political alignmentAll-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
LanguageYiddish
Ceased publicationJanuary 1939
HeadquartersMoscow
CountrySoviet Union

Der Emes (Yiddish: דער עמעס, IPA: [dɛr ˈɛməs], meaning 'The Truth'; from Hebrew אמת, emeth) was a Soviet newspaper in Yiddish. A continuation of the short-lived Di varhayt, Der Emes began publishing in Moscow on August 8, 1918. The publisher was the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Moishe Litvakov was its editor-in-chief from 1921 until his arrest in the fall of 1937; after that, the newspaper was headed by an anonymous "editorial board". From January 7, 1921, to March 1930 Der Emes appeared as the organ of the Central Bureau of Yevsektsiya. In January 1939 the campaign against Yiddish culture in the USSR became widespread, and Der Emes was liquidated.