Ha-Yom

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| editor = Jehuda Löb Kantor

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| foundation = 1886

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| language = Hebrew

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| circulation = 2,400 (1886)

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Ha-Yom ({{langx|he|היום}}, "The Day") was a Hebrew-language newspaper published from 1886 to mid-1888 from Saint Petersburg, Russia.Schreiber, Mordecai, Alvin I. Schiff, and Leon Klenicki. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DK5K72JymAEC The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia]. Rockville, Md: Schreiber Pub, 2003. pp. 109, 212 It was founded and edited by Jehuda Löb Kantor.Waxman, Meyer. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wzI8GCnUYDwC A History of Jewish Literature: From the Close of the Bible to Our Own Days. [5-6], From Eighteen-Eighty to Nineteen-Thirty Five]. [Whitefish (Mont.)]: Kessinger Publishing, 1941. pp. 46, 435-436[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwHyKU0gl0wC The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)], p. 167 Ha-Yom was the first daily Hebrew newspaper. When it was launched Ha-Yom had a daily circulation of around 2,400. By 1887 the number of subscribers had fallen to around 1,600.Kouts, Gideon. [http://revistas.ucm.es/inf/11370734/articulos/HICS0303110147A.PDF The first Hebrew newspapers in Europe. Economic and Organizational Aspects] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329120859/http://revistas.ucm.es/inf/11370734/articulos/HICS0303110147A.PDF |date=2010-03-29 }}

Ha-Yom was characterized by a modern, Europeanized form of journalism, previously unknown in the Hebrew-language press. It was the first Hebrew-language newspaper to rely on telegraphic news agency material for its coverage. Moreover, Kantor contracted correspondents in Jewish centres in Western Europe and the United States.Waxman, Meyer. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wzI8GCnUYDwC A History of Jewish Literature: From the Close of the Bible to Our Own Days. [5-6], From Eighteen-Eighty to Nineteen-Thirty Five]. [Whitefish (Mont.)]: Kessinger Publishing, 1941. pp. 441-442 Prominent contributors to Ha-Yom included D. Frischman, A. Rosenfeld and L. Katzenelson.

The launching and initial success of Ha-Yom provoked the existing Hebrew-language publications Ha-Meliz and Ha-Tsefirah to convert themselves into daily newspapers. Competition with Aleksander Zederbaum's Ha-Meliz became fierce. Prior to the founding of Ha-Yom, Ha-Meliz had monopolized the Jewish press in the Russia.Orbach, Alexander. [https://books.google.com/books?id=k_NSPGTuzH8C New Voices of Russian Jewry: A Study of the Russian-Jewish Press of Odessa in the Era of the Great Reforms]. Studies in Judaism in Modern Times, V. 4. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1980. p. 65 The fact that Ha-Yom subscribed to the "Northern Company" telegraphic news agency forced Ha-Meliz to do the same. The subscription costs (3,000 rubles per year) became a heavy economic burden for both publications.

At an early stage Ha-Yom became the newspaper of choice of many followers of the Lovers of Zion movement. However, Ha-Meliz was able to convince a large portion of them to shift their subscriptions back to Ha-Meliz, thus significantly undercutting the popularity of Ha-Yom.

In 1887 the literary Ben-Ami ("Son of my people") was introduced as a monthly supplement to Ha-Yom. Four issues of Ben-Ami were published.Beĭzer, M., and Martin Gilbert. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MK0IAD6p2DoC The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions Through a Noble Past]. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1989. p. 277

The last few editions of Ha-Yom were edited by J. L. Gordon.Waxman, Meyer. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wzI8GCnUYDwC A History of Jewish Literature: From the Close of the Bible to Our Own Days. [5-6], From Eighteen-Eighty to Nineteen-Thirty Five]. [Whitefish (Mont.)]: Kessinger Publishing, 1941. p. 449 After Ha-Yom was closed down, Kantor became the editor of Ha-Meliz in 1889.