''Rost'' (, ) was a Bukharian-Jewish (
Judeo-Tajik) language
wall newspaper-bulletin published twice weekly from
Tashkent
Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. I ...
,
Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR; ; ), originally called the Turkestan Socialist Federative Republic, was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ...
, between 1920 and 1922.
[ ''Rost'' was an organ of the Turkestan Division of the ]Russian Telegraph Agency
Russian Telegraph Agency (, ROSTA) was the state news agency in Soviet Russia between 1918 and 1935. It was the central information organ of the Soviet Union.
After the creation of Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union in 1925, it remained the ne ...
(ROSTA).[
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Founding of ''Rost''
''Rost'' was the second Bukharian-Jewish newspaper in history, after the pre-revolutionary '' Raḥamim'' and was the first Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper.[Levin, Zeev. ]
Two Conferences on Bukharan Jews in Israel
' Behind the launching of ''Rost'' stood Rahmin Badalov, the director of the Educational Institute (INPROS), who had set up a Bukharian-Jewish printing house.[Рахметолла Байтасов]
Трагедия народов СССР
Litres, 2022 Badalov would serve as the editor of ''Rost''.[
At the time, Soviet language policy regarding the Bukharian Jews was not entirely consistent and ''Rost'' conceptualized that the newspaper was published in the ']Persian language
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision ...
of Local Jews',[Zakharova, Larissa & Arel, Dominique & Cadiot, Juliette. (2009). ]
Cacophonie d'empire. Le gouvernement des langues dans l'empire russe et en URSS
'. As of December 1920, ''Rost'' carried the motto "Workers of the world, unite!
The political slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" is one of the rallying cries from ''The Communist Manifesto'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (, literally , but soon popularised in English language, English as "Workers of the wo ...
" translated as , by June 1921, the wording of the translation of the motto had changed to .[
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Contents
''Rost'' was published twice weekly.[ Copies of ''Rost'' consisted of a single page, carrying translated ROSTA news stories and articles from the Russian press on government activities.][Levin, Zeev. ]
Bukharan Jewish Newspapers in Central Asia, 1910–1938
' The newspaper used Rashi script
The Rashi script or Sephardic script () is a typeface for the Hebrew alphabet based on 15th-century Sephardic semi-cursive handwriting. It is named for the rabbinic commentator Rashi, whose works are customarily printed in the typeface (though ...
.[
Роберт Пинхасов]
Бухарские евреи: очерки
Изд. "М+", 2010. p. 76 Copies of ''Rost'' were distributed free of charge.[ In 1920, 40 issues were published, but in 1921, publication became more irregular with only 13 issues published.]
Naming
The name of the publication was taken from the abbreviation of the Russian Telegraph Agency ROSTA. But in Hebrew writing, the final 'a' of the Russian abbreviation was omitted in print, giving the word ''rost'' which means 'truth' in Bukharian-Jewish language (which alluded to the Russian newspaper ''Pravda
''Pravda'' ( rus, Правда, p=ˈpravdə, a=Ru-правда.ogg, 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most in ...
'').[
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Closure
Publication of ''Rost'' was abruptly discontinued in 1922 as its editors had been found engaging in bazaar business activities in the midst of the New Economic Policy
The New Economic Policy (NEP) () was an economic policy of the Soviet Union proposed by Vladimir Lenin in 1921 as a temporary expedient. Lenin characterized the NEP in 1922 as an economic system that would include "a free market and capitalism, ...
.[Lutz Rzehak]
The Linguistic Challenge: Bukharan Jews and Soviet Language Policy
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References
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Jews and Judaism in Uzbekistan
Newspapers published in the Soviet Union
Newspapers established in 1920
Newspapers disestablished in 1922
Mass media in Tashkent
Defunct Jewish newspapers