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World Jewish News
Jewish Weekly Fights for Publicity
07.05.2009
Yevreyskoye Mestechko (Shtetl) Jewish weekly celebrated its sixth anniversary and started many unique initiatives in the local press on World Press Freedom Day.
First of all, the newspaper has undertaken the support of all events concerned with search activities and perpetuation of the memory of fascism victims on the territory of the republic occupied by the German and Romanian fascists in the years of the Holocaust, as it considers this to be a most fundamental matter.
There turned out to be much work needed, as the active search for Jewish common graves and separate burial places only started at the end of the difficult 90s.
The fact that not a single republican newspaper seriously worried about the hard issue of Shoah and neglected Jewish graves located on the territory of the former Bessarabia and Transnistria over the post-war years has made this series of publications unprecedented.
Coverage of the revival of an extremely neglected metropolitan Jewish cemetery that is being realized by Dor le Dor charity fund (Hebrew: generation to generation) has become a real concern of the weekly’s journalists.
The Shtetl column, a description of the former Bessarabia shtetls, has complemented the chronicle of the link of times perfectly.
The newspaper has managed to join the distant shores by opening the Zemlyaki (Compatriots) regular (approximately one hundred publications about emigrants from Moldova living in Israel, USA, Germany and other countries have been issued in it). And, most importantly, the newspaper has managed to break the existing in the community stereotype of lobbying that excluded appearance of any critical publications about the community management and analysis of what was actually happening. The weekly fights for publicity and openness in problems’ discussion and this helped it gain the respect of ordinary community members.
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