''Flugblat'' (, 'Leaflet') was a

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-language daily newspaper published in

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between October 13, 1915 and January, 1916, during the German occupation of the city.Marten-Finnis, Susanne.
Vilna As a Centre of the Modern Jewish Press, 1840-1928: Aspirations, Challenges, and Progress
'. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004. p. 168
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', eds. 23–26. Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, 1987. p. 73 ''Flugblat'' was the first Yiddish newspaper to appear in Vilnius following the July 1915 Russian ban on non-

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press.Koss, Andrew Noble
World War I and the Remaking of Jewish Vilna, 1914-1918
'. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2010. pp. 133–134 The issues of ''Flugblat'' consisted of one or two pages containing translations of official telegram wires from the German military for the Eastern Front and decrees from the German authorities to the local population.Bar, Aryeh.
The Jewish press that was: accounts, evaluations, and memories of Jewish papers in pre-Holocaust Europe
'. World Federation of Jewish Journalists, 1980. p. 227 The newspaper was shut down when Feivel Margolin, a known journalist, obtained an exclusive permit to print a new daily Yiddish newspaper for the entire

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district, '' Letze nayes''. Altogether, 100 issues of ''Flugblat'' were printed.

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