''Folks-Sztyme'' (), or ''People's Voice'' in English, was a bilingual magazine published in
Polish and Yiddish in
Communist Poland between 1946 and 1991.
An homonymous newspaper existed before World War II. According to Henri Minczeles, the paper began to be circulated in 1946, from
Åódź
Åódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Åódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Åódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...
, but it moved to
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
after a few years. In 1953, the
American Jewish Yearbook
The ''American Jewish Year Book'' (AJYB) has been published since . Publication was initiated by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS). In 1908, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) assumed responsibility for compilation and editing while JPS remai ...
noted that "The only newspaper was the Communist Folks-Sztyme. It appeared four days a week and had an illustrated weekly supplement. ''Yiddishe Szriften'', a monthly devoted to literature and art, continued to appear under the sponsorship of the Social and Cultural Union."
From 1956 onwards, it was published by the official Jewish association formed by the Communist authorities, the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland ().
The editor from 1950 to 1968 was Hersz (Gregory) Smolar, and after 1968 successively Samuel Tenenblatt and Adam Kwaterko.
Due to the declining number of Jews in Poland, the number of his readers constantly decreased and it became a weekly in 1968. In 1991, it ceased operations and a year later it was replaced by the monthly ''
The Jewish Word'' (Polish: ''SÅowo Å»ydowskie, Dos Jidisze Wort'').
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