Zentralorgan is a 19th-century German term for journals associated with a certain technical field, party or political movement. Later it was reduced to a term for official party papers and journals of socialist and worker parties since the 19th century.
7-593: Besides the Die Welt , Zentralorgan der Zionistischen Vereinigung (main newspaper of the zionist movement founded by Theodor Herzl ) or Zentralorgan für die gesamte Chirurgie und ihre Grenzgebiete (an important medical newspaper dealing with surgery) most famous examples are the Vorwärts , owned by the SPD . Within the GDR , the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland was Zentralorgan of
14-773: A mix of content. As well as information about the Zionist movement and news of Jewish settlement in Palestine, it reported on general news relevant to Judaism or Zionism, including the spread of anti-Semitism. The Dreyfus Affair was unfolding during its run, and it regularly reported on new developments. It also published an article written by Dreyfus himself on Zionism. The journal was also opposed to assimilationist strands within Western Judaism. It included cultural and philosophical essays and translations from Hebrew and Yiddish literature. It sought articles from non-Jews promoting Zionism as
21-502: A socialist past is as well a fan magazine of Dynamo Dresden called Zentralorgan . Die Welt (Herzl) Die Welt ( "The World" ) was a weekly newspaper founded by Theodor Herzl in May 1897 in Vienna . It was designed to promote Zionism and boldly proclaimed itself to be a Judenblatt (Jew-paper). From 1897 to 1914 it was the principal organ of the Zionist movement. From 1897 to 1900,
28-537: A solution to the "Jewish question", and remained largely uncritically focussed on the positive aspects of the aspiration, tending to ignore objections. Controversy was created by an extremely aggressive article by Nordau attacking the cultural Zionist Ahad Ha'am , who had challenged Herzl's vision. Nordau's abusive language, calling Ha'am "crippled, hunchbacked" and the "despised slave of intolerant knout-wielding pogromchiks", caused outrage among Jewish nationalists and Zionists. Short-lived Hebrew and Yiddish editions of
35-546: Is like my legitimate wife. With Die Welt I am maintaining a mistress – I can only hope that she will not ruin me". The editorial in the first issue stated that Die Welt promoted "the reconciling solution to the Jewish question". Production was based initially in Vienna, but later moved to Berlin. The journal's circulation varied widely, usually reaching at least 3,000 copies sold, and sometimes more than 10,000 copies. Die Welt had
42-533: The Socialist Unity Party of Germany , Zentralorgan of the youth association Freie Deutsche Jugend was the daily Junge Welt . Another use of Zentralorgan is found for important journals in certain fields. E.g. the computer magazine c't was dubbed Zentralorgan of Nerdistan by a Spiegel article. Another, more derogative use is to describe an important news outlet that suppresses certain opinions in which deviant opinions were unwanted. An allegiance to
49-649: The paper was edited by Erwin Rosenberger. Die Welt was published weekly in Herzl's own publishing house. He developed the idea in May 1897, noting in his journal that Die Welt would be the definitive mass-circulation outlet for the Zionist Organization , and that such a journal was "a necessity that can no longer be ignored." The first issue appeared on 4 June 1897. Shortly before, on 14 May, Herzl wrote to his supporter Max Nordau , joking that "The Neue Freie Presse
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