Der Emes
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{{Infobox newspaper
|name = Der Emes
|foundation = August 7, 1918
|language = Yiddish
|political = All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
|ceased publication = January 1939
|publishing_country = Soviet Union
|headquarters = Moscow
}}
Der Emes ({{langx|yi|דער עמעס}}, {{IPA|yi|dɛr ˈɛməs|IPA}}, meaning 'The Truth'; from Hebrew {{langx|he|אמת|emeth|label=none}}) was a Soviet newspaper in Yiddish. A continuation of the short-lived Di varhayt, Der Emes began publishing in Moscow on August 8, 1918.Kotlerman, Boris (August 5, 2010). "[https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Emes_Der Emes, Der]." The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Retrieved June 11, 2020. 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{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}. In January 1939 the campaign against Yiddish culture in the USSR became widespread, and Der Emes was liquidated.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
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Der Emes was a conductor of Soviet propaganda and ideas directed at Jews in the USSR and all around the world.
The most prominent line of the newspaper was the struggle against antisemitic occurrences in the USSR and the Russian Diaspora. Since 1933 there was a continuous blaming of racism in Germany under Hitler.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
Another topic was the promotion of Soviet Jewish proletarian culture in Yiddish that ranged from the Jewish Settlement to Yiddish theatres.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
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Category:Jewish anti-Zionism in Russia
Category:Jewish anti-Zionism in the Soviet Union
Category:Jews and Judaism in Moscow
Category:Yiddish communist newspapers
Category:Propaganda in the Soviet Union
Category:Secular Jewish culture in the Soviet Union
Category:Defunct Yiddish-language newspapers published in Russia
Category:Newspapers published in Moscow
Category:Newspapers established in 1918
Category:Publications disestablished in 1939