Munkatsher Humorist
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Munkatsher Humorist ({{langx|yi|מונקאטשער הומאָריסט}}) was a Yiddish language satirical weekly, published in Munkács, Subcarpathian Rus', Czechoslovakia (present-day Mukachevo in Ukraine) between 1924 and 1927.Komoróczy Szonja Ráhel. [https://www.academia.edu/8368438/%C3%96nazonoss%C3%A1g_%C3%A9s_tagolts%C3%A1g_Elemz%C3%A9sek_a_kultur%C3%A1lis_megosztotts%C3%A1gr%C3%B3l_Szerk_B%C3%A1rdi_N%C3%A1ndor_T%C3%B3th_%C3%81gnes_Argumentum_Budapest_2013_355 A munkácsi jiddis sajtó a két világháború között] in Önazonosság és tagoltság. Elemzések a kulturális megosztottságról. Szerk. Bárdi Nándor, Tóth Ágnes, Argumentum, Budapest, 2013, 355.Szonja Rahel Komoroczy. [https://www.academia.edu/15364181/_Aser_Zelig_Weiss_a_munk%C3%A1csi_v%C5%91f%C3%A9ly_in_Regio_23_1_2015_pp_36_49 "Aser Zelig Weiss, a munkácsi vőfély"], in: Regio, 23:1 (2015), pp. 36-49. The paper was published by Aser Zelig Weiss, a badchen (Jewish wedding entertainer) famous in the city.{{cite book | date = 1926 | title = ביבליאגראפישער יארביכער פון ייוו׳׳א | publisher = פארלאג קולטורליגע | pages = 5 | oclc = 145401973 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9oSAAAAIAAJ}}{{cite book | date = 1980 | title = The Jewish Press that was: Accounts, Evaluations, and Memories of Jewish Papers in Pre-Holocaust Europe | publisher = World Federation of Jewish Journalists | pages =367 | oclc = 43287001 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WhxlAAAAMAAJ}} The publication was popular among the local Jewish community.[https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/V/vays-asher-zelig.htm "Asher-Zelig Vays"], Leksikon fun yidishn teater citing S. Y. Dorzon, "Der yikhus fun yidish in karpatn-rus", Literarishe Bleter, Warsaw, 35, 1929.
Munkatsher Humorist was published on Wednesdays. It featured local news and comments on current events, as well as anecdotes and jokes. The newspaper carried advertisements in Yiddish, German and Hungarian. The language used in Munkatsher Humorist was distinctively folksy and idiomatic, showcasing a rich repository of the local Yiddish dialect.
The paper was politically independent. The paper ridiculed local Jewish internal politics, in particular joking about the struggles of the Hasidic courts of Munkács and Belz.{{cite book | date = 1984 | title = ביי זיך, Volumes 26-28 | publisher = קאמיטעט פאר יידישער קולטור אין ישראל | pages = 42| oclc = 1790780 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-3MHAQAAIAAJ}}
The launching of Munkatsher Humorist in 1924 had been preceded the same year by the emergence in Munkács of the daily newspaper Dos Yidishe Folksblat ('The Jewish People's Newspaper') during the lead-up to the 1924 election.{{cite book | author = Martin Wein | date = 5 October 2015 | title = History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands | publisher = BRILL | pages = 153 | isbn = 978-90-04-30127-6 | oclc = 1030568123 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wai8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA153}} In 1927 a rival Yiddish daily, Yidishe Tzaytung ('Jewish Newspaper'), was founded by Chief Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapira. Munkatsher Humorist would dedicate significant attention to the squabbles between the two dailies.
The copies of the periodical were printed by the Meisels Bernat printing shop. The paper consisted of four pages. The format was 24x32 cm.
Munkatsher Humorist was eventually driven out of the market by other Yiddish-language publications.