- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
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In Pre-War Poland The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk - Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870‒1940
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Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland
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Jewish Theatre in Poland
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A Tuml in the Shtetl: Khayim Betsalel Grinberg’s Di khevre-kedishe sude
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Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song
- Simkhe Plakhte: From ‘Folklore’ to Literary Artefact
- Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth Century
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Papers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia
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Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland
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Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland
- Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press
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After Life From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp -
The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations
- Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context
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‘The Time of Vishniac’: Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts
-
Repopulating Jewish Poland—in Wood
-
The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland
Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland
- Chapter:
- (p.189) Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16
- Author(s):
Nathan Cohen
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter describes Jewish popular reading in inter-war Poland, looking at shund and the Polish tabloid press. In the first third of the twentieth century, as the Polish press was developing rapidly, sensationalist newspapers began to proliferate. While this type of press had been widespread in the United States and western Europe since the middle of the nineteenth century, it first emerged in Poland only in 1910, with Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny (Illustrated Daily Courier) in Kraków. In Warsaw, the first tabloid newspapers, Kurier Informacyjny i Telegraficzny (Information and Telegraphic Courier) and Ekspres Poranny (Morning Express), appeared in 1922. In 1926, Kurier Informacyjny i Telegraficzny changed its name, now printed in red, to Kurier Czerwony (Red Courier). In time, the colour red became emblematic of sensationalist newspapers in Poland, and they were nicknamed czerwoniaki (Reds), similar to the ‘yellow’ press in the West.
Keywords: Jewish popular reading, Poland, shund, Polish tabloid press, sensationalist newspapers, Illustrated Daily Courier, tabloid newspapers, Morning Express, Red Courier, czerwoniaki
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- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
-
In Pre-War Poland The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk - Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870‒1940
-
Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland
-
Jewish Theatre in Poland
-
A Tuml in the Shtetl: Khayim Betsalel Grinberg’s Di khevre-kedishe sude
-
Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song
- Simkhe Plakhte: From ‘Folklore’ to Literary Artefact
- Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth Century
-
Papers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia
-
Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland
-
Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland
- Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press
-
After Life From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp -
The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations
- Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context
-
‘The Time of Vishniac’: Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts
-
Repopulating Jewish Poland—in Wood
-
The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
