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Twice Haynt
celebrated major anniversaries. In 1928, at the 20th
anniversary and in 1938 - at its 30th year of operation. In honor of
both occasions, jubilee books appeared with a wide range political, economic,
and literary-artistic content. They contained important articles and studies
that discussed in-depth the situation of Jews in
The first book is called Haynt Jubilee Book of 1908-1928*
The cover was drawn by the artist Yitzhak Brauner (1889-1944)
in two colors, in the style of the covers of old Jewish books. During the
Nazi-occupation, Brauner has made his living with different works in the Ghetto
of Lodsz, also with playing the fiddle. The Germans arrested him when he was
walking in the street with his fiddle in a cloth bag and then one took him away
to
The book has 216 pages and it has several tens of photographs. It was sold for 1.9 Zloty. Together with the Friday-issue of Haynt. In the free sale the price has been 4 Zloty. When the date of the 20th anniversary had approached,
* In the
beginning the idea was to print a jubilee issue as a special issue of the Haynt, but when the rich material and
the great number of announcements has by far exceeded by far the format of a
newspaper, the issue was changed to Haynt
Jubilee-Book, then the title was printed on the cover and on the
first text-page. The whole book had been already printed and therefore one
couldn't change the headline on the other pages. It remained as before - Haynt-Jubilee-Book.
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a civic committee of Jewish personalities was formed, which released the following appeal:
“Haynt celebrates its 20th anniversary. This 20 years has been a difficult and creative period - a period of big disasters and catastrophes, of a lot of skirmishes, waking up and revival. In this period Haynt has always been the speaker of the new revival-idea, the spokesman and the executor of the new revival-movement. We have planted and cultivated the Jewish national awareness, woke up the fight for national liberation, sustained with all forces, creative deeds in all fields of life of the Jewish people. The best forces of the Jewish literature have found in Haynt a place for their creation. Haynt has broken though a way for the masses Jewish of readers, endeavored to advance them, to enhance them, to wake up within them the national pride, the comprehension for the big and responsible challenge, which our period imposes on each faithful son of the Jewish people.
Especially in the last years, since
As Haynt served the Jewish people and their revival-ideal the whole 20 years, so it serves also today. (This is a play on words because haynt is Yiddish for today.) No obstacles can lead us away from his difficult way, which we have chosen and upon which we want to lead the reader.
And therefore the holiday of Haynt is the holiday of the honest, national, Jewish word, the holiday of our revival-movement, of Polish Zionism. At this holiday we call for you to celebrate together with us!"
The anniversary-committee summoned a
big academy in
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case room
"Graphika" (owner M. Kopperstock and M. Kramasz) and
"Vukograph". It was printed in three printing shops:
"Renoma", "Vuspolpratza" (owner Abraham Keisman) and
"Universalna" (owner Jakob Handler). The cover was printed in the
printing shop "Biurawa" (owner Jona Rochman). Chaim Goldberg has made
the proofs in his zincography "Graphika". The typesetting was
accomplished by L. Rind. The price of the book was 5 Zlotys in
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of
Haynt, a committee was formed of
renowned political leaders, persons engaged in the social and cultural sector,
writers from
"The year
1938 means an anniversary in the history of the Jewish press. Thirty years ago
this Jewish tribune was founded, which demonstrated a way for the printed
Jewish word to break through the broadest layers of readers and to make the
Jewish newspaper a successful tool in the fight for reviving the Jewish people.
In January 1908 Haynt began publication,
which had quickly got huge attention thanks to Haynt’s deep understanding of the psychology
of the masses and its bold treatment of Jewish life problems, which no Jewish
newspaper reached before it. Haynt,
enjoying a unusual trust and popularity on the Jewish
street, put this capacity in the service of the Jewish national idea, for which
he has educated millions not only in
In order to
depict to the full extent the beginning of Haynt
during his 30 year long existence, one has to depict the whole, long way of our
revival-movement, of which Haynt was
the keeper and advocate in this stormy period. There was nearly no place in the
Jewish life, where the traces of the effect and the influence of Haynt was not noticeable. Unforgotten
for our generation will be the role of Haynt
in the fight against the firm rule in the Jewish life in
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assimilation,
which is adversarial to the Jewish people, and the victory of the Jewish
people's democracy - the historic-meaningful process, which has radically
changed the character of the Jewish society, is in a major part the merit of Haynt, which has attacked with
incomparable bravery and endurance, not regarding any threat or fight, the
positions of the nadir caused by the exile and which has awakened the masses of
the people to national self-esteem and to the brave fight for a better destiny.
Together with
the political-social education of the reader, Haynt, with the collaboration of the best Jewish authors and poets,
has installed a tribune with the authority in the Jewish literature with a big
resonance, which helped the Jewish artistic word to penetrate the Jewish masses
and to be planted in them an understanding and longing for the worth of the
modern Jewish culture.
The achievement
of Haynt in the last two decades
after the world war has been invaluable, when it has become the central tribune
of the Jewish urge for liberation in the exile and for the endeavors of the
construction of the Jewish national home in
Also in this difficult times for the Jewry in the world Haynt carries comfort and encouragement
in the darkest places of the Jewish life. He encourages each deed of self-help
and strengthens morally the Jewish man (Mentsh) by deepening his awareness for
the historic challenge of our generation. Therefore, the 30th anniversary of Haynt is a jubilation of the loyal and
honest service to the Jewish people, and a holiday of Haynt is the holiday of the whole national, Jewish society, which
can be proud on the property of this valuable, earnest tribute. We call all
friends of the Jewish-national press to celebrate this
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holiday by giving a dignified expression of the earned
acknowledgment for the 30 years of activity of Haynt for the general Jew and therefore to encourage Haynt to continue his way of fighting
and defending for the liberation and raising of our heavily scrutinized
people."
When the call was published, congratulations to the jubilee of the newspaper were received from hundreds of Jewish organizations, from hundreds of Jewish centers, big and small communities of the whole world, warm wishes to bear up in the fight for a better tomorrow.
Even before the jubilee book
appeared, new suitors, readers, have spontaneously started to send money to
order the book in advance, At the end of the jubilee book is printed a list of
the subscribers that paid in advance for a book. The list has nearly 3000 names
of readers in 386 cities and villages in