Dyhernfurther Privilegirte Zeitung – דירנפורטער פריפילעגירטע צייטונג
דירנפורטער פריפילעגירטע צייטונג, edited by Michael Lemel. Dyhernfurth (Brzeg Dolny) 1771-1772 | Call Number: Jud. Germ. 781 (Yiddish Prints, issue 1771,2) | Digital copy via Frankfurt's Digital Judaica Collections.
The origins of Jewish press are closely linked to Amsterdam as a center of the printing press and Jewish culture. The first Jewish periodicals – in Hebrew, Ladino and Yiddish – were printed here. While the University Library Frankfurt holds microfilms of the Gazetta de Amsterdam (c. 1672-1699, Ladino) and the Dinstagishe un Fraytagishe Kurant (1686 -1687, Yiddish), the oldest journal of which a printed copy is available is the Dyhernfurther Privilegirte Zeitung. Published between 1771 and 1772 in Dyhernfurth in Lower Silesia (today Brzeg Dolny, Poland), it served the Jews in and around Breslau and provided news on current events in West-Yiddish.
Today, this short-lived newspaper is extremely rare and the few known copies are incomplete. The University Library Frankfurt holds the second issue printed in 1771 as part of its Yiddish Prints collection. However the issue itself is incomplete, missing parts of each page and at least one sheet and thus only offers a glimpse of its contents. The first page compiles short reports, here on events in Berlin, Constantinople, Warsaw.
